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Maersk invests in US start-up to develop e-fuels

A.P. Moller – Maersk has made a leading venture investment in Prometheus Fuels, a Silicon Valley-based startup with a direct air capture technology to enable carbon neutral e-fuels for shipping.

Maersk joins a team of investors which includes BMW and Metaplanet. Peter Votkjaer Jorgensen, partner at Maersk Growth, will join the board of Prometheus Fuels.

Maersk expects several fuels to exist alongside in the future fuel mix and has identified four potential fuel pathways to decarbonisation; biodiesel, alcohols, lignin-enhanced alcohols, and ammonia.

The minority investment supports its efforts with e-fuels which include alcohols produced from renewable energy. Along with biodiesel, alcohols, including green methanol, are feasible fuel technologies today.

Morten Bo Christiansen, head of decarbonisation at A.P. Moller – Maersk, said: “Prometheus Fuels is developing a very exciting and innovative technology to produce carbon based electrofuels from direct air capture of CO2. Electrofuels are expected to play a key role for the decarbonisation of shipping and, if scaled successfully, Prometheus Fuels’ technology will address a key constraint for carbon based electrofuels – namely the cost competitiveness of direct air capture.”

Adis Ajdin

Adis is an experienced news reporter with a background in finance, media and education. He has written across the spectrum of offshore energy and ocean industries for many years and is a member of International Federation of Journalists. Previously he had written for Navingo media group titles including Offshore Energy, Subsea World News and Marine Energy.
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