As the world transitions to greener energy, we face significant challenges:
The world needs scalable, cost‑competitive, low‑carbon fuels – but current pathways cannot deliver them at the speed, cost, or scale required. Energy demand continues to rise, yet most low‑carbon alternatives remain constrained by cost, land use, renewable availability, or slow onshore development timelines. Meanwhile, large volumes of gas remain stranded offshore or in remote regions where traditional infrastructure is uneconomic or impractical.
Shipping, chemicals, and aviation all require significant lifecycle emissions reductions, but today’s fuel supply chains cannot meet regulatory requirements or commercial needs through 2050. Dual‑fuel methanol vessels are already being delivered with no large‑scale supply of low‑carbon methanol, and aviation has no meaningful source of lower‑carbon jet fuel.
These challenges require a solution that is scalable, cost‑competitive, globally deployable, and aligned with long‑term regulatory trajectories.
Fundamental Business Drivers
- Low‑carbon fuels must compete on price to drive global, voluntary adoption
A global transition will only occur if low‑carbon fuels are cost‑competitive with unabated fuels on an energy‑equivalent basis and available at scale without subsidies, grants, or regulatory pressure.
- Climate change is driven by fossil‑fuel combustion, not the molecules themselves
Capturing and returning CO₂ to the reservoir is one of the most cost‑effective ways to minimise both operational emissions and those of downstream users.
- Returning CO₂ to the reservoir restores the system to its starting point
Injecting a similar amount of CO₂ as the gas used for feedstock means that, at end of field life, the reservoir is broadly in the same state as when production began – with only hydrogen effectively removed.
- Low‑carbon methanol enables a closed‑loop system
Producing methanol offshore or nearshore and returning CO₂ from shipping or industry closes the carbon loop, enabling progressively greater lifecycle reductions over time.
- Floating production unlocks stranded resources and avoids onshore constraints
Floating units convert remote gas resources into low‑carbon fuels directly at the field, avoiding land use, long permitting timelines, and high onshore costs. They can also process onshore gas at an offshore or nearshore location when this is commercially or operationally advantageous.
At EPC Global (Denmark) ApS, we have developed an innovative approach to energy production: floating low-carbon-intensity methanol units.
This photograph depicts a floating LNG facility, included as a general representation of offshore floating production units only. It is not owned or operated by the company.
EPC Global is set to build own and operate floating production units that convert natural gas into low‑ to ultra‑low‑carbon methanol with full carbon capture and permanent geological storage (CCS). By reforming natural gas into low‑carbon hydrogen and releasing carbon upfront for permanent sequestration – including additional CO₂ from shipping (OCCS) or industry (IND CO₂) – EPCG can deliver up to 94% lifecycle reduction utilising a pathway that LNG and other fossil fuels cannot access.
Generic floating units will be fabricated in South Korea and deployed directly at offshore gas fields, or nearshore gas supplies, avoiding the cost, land constraints, and permitting delays of onshore plants. Permanent CO₂ sequestration in producing reservoirs provides proven long‑term containment integrity. Any reservoir pressure support or CO₂‑enhanced gas recovery effects that may occur are incidental and not relied upon for emissions crediting.
EPCG low to ultra-low carbon methanol is aligned with global frameworks (IMO MARPOL Annex VI and all plausible IMO NZF outcomes) and regional frameworks (EU Delegated Regulation of 8 July 2025, FuelEU Maritime, and EU ETS shipping inclusion). It is one of the few fuels capable of meeting long‑term regulatory trajectories at scale and at a fraction of the cost of bio‑ or e‑fuels.
This provides a scalable, cost‑competitive pathway utilising proven technology for decarbonising shipping, chemicals, and aviation – with onshore production of Lower‑Carbon Aviation Fuel (LCAF) via the methanol‑to‑jet route, fully compliant under ICAO CORSIA.