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Air Liquide
Air Liquide
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 73 countries with approximately 67,100 employees and serves more than 3.9 million customers and patients.
Sogestran
Sogestran
The Sogestran Group, founded in 1947, is organised into four main business lines: maritime, barging, logistics and industry.
Air Liquide
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 73 countries with approximately 67,100 employees and serves more than 3.9 million customers and patients.
Supporting the decarbonization of Industry is one of the strategic pillars of Air Liquide, which is committed to addressing the urgency of climate change and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
At the forefront of CO2 technology
Air Liquide has a longstanding experience in CO2 management, from capture, purification and liquefaction to storage and transport from various sources.
One of Air Liquide’s key capabilities in CO2 capture is a market-leading development and application of cryogenic processes, which involve the use of low temperatures to separate gases. Air Liquide’s principal range of products in this field is known as Cryocap™.
As efficient and safe CO2 handling is a key part of a LCO2 carrying vessel, OCEOS is drawing on this deep experience of CO2 to develop optimized solutions.
Sogestran
The Sogestran Group, founded in 1947, is organised into four main business lines:
- Maritime, with a fleet of c.35 vessels operating in Europe, the Indian Ocean, West Africa, the Caribbean, French Guyana, Polynesia and the Pacific Ocean
- Barging, with over 160 inland units operating on the Rhone, Seine, Loire, Donau and Rhine rivers
- Logistics, with dedicated regular transport services of containers in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, by barge combined with train and truck
- Industry, with high-level installations in Le Havre, France, dedicated to storage of conditioned hazardous goods
Building on its long-standing experience of oil, chemical and gas transportation, and in support of its strong CSR policy, Sogestran Group has embraced the opportunity to develop a safe and reliable solution in support of the emerging CCS industry.
Pushing the boundaries of technology and innovation
Innovation has always been at the heart of Sogestran’s history, with three key objectives:
- Reduction of our environmental footprint
- Reliability and safety of our service
- Competitiveness
Our in-house technical department is organised around a design and a new-building department to develop and build innovative units meeting our customers and partners' specific needs. Over the past years, Sogestran has developed the first inland LNG bunkering barge, the first hydrogen-powered barge in Europe and a hybrid-powered tanker ship.
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Pioneering
Building on already more than three years development work -
Extensive
Both shipping & barging solutions -
Combined expertise
From maritime & industrial gas worlds
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