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How Much Fuel Did the Maersk Pelican Save With Rotor Sails?

Norsepower reported 8.2% aggregate fuel savings in a one-year Maersk Pelican trial with two 30-metre (about 98-foot) Rotor Sails—not 9.8% or 130-foot sails.
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The Maersk Pelican did not have 130-foot sails, and the available project results do not support a 9.8% fuel-saving figure. Norsepower reported two 30-metre (about 98-foot) Rotor Sails on the tanker and an aggregate fuel saving of 8.2% during a one-year trial from September 2018 to September 2019.

What was installed on the Maersk Pelican?

Norsepower and its project partners installed two 30-metre Rotor Sails on the Maersk Pelican, a Maersk Tankers LR2 product tanker. The 30-metre height is about 98 feet, not 130 feet. These figures come from Norsepower’s 2018 announcement: Norsepower’s installation announcement.

What fuel saving did the trial report?

Norsepower’s 2019 results release reported an aggregate fuel saving of 8.2% over the trial period, 1 September 2018 through 1 September 2019. The company also said the saving represented approximately 1,400 tonnes of CO₂. Those are the reported results for this vessel and trial period, not a guaranteed saving for other ships or routes. Read Norsepower’s trial-results release.

Norsepower said Lloyd’s Register’s Ship Performance Group analyzed and validated the performance data against a baseline established using full-scale measurements and computational analysis. The independent analysis report itself is not available in the cited material, so the validation details are attributable here to Norsepower’s account.

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Why do the 9.8% and 130-foot figures differ?

The available primary project announcements support neither figure for the Maersk Pelican installation. They describe two 30-metre rotors and report 8.2% aggregate savings after the one-year trial. The original source for the 9.8% and 130-foot wording has not been established, so those figures should not be presented as confirmed facts about this ship.

There is a separate number that can cause confusion: at installation, Norsepower said savings of 7–10% were expected on typical global routes. That was an initial forecast, not the measured result later reported for the Maersk Pelican trial.

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How do Rotor Sails help propel a ship?

A Rotor Sail is a tall cylinder that rotates in the wind. Its rotation creates a pressure difference through the Magnus effect, producing force that assists the ship’s forward motion. The system provides wind-assisted propulsion; it does not replace the ship’s engine. Norsepower describes the mechanism in its Rotor Sail technology overview.

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What can the result tell ship operators?

The trial is a vessel-specific result, not evidence that every ship fitted with Rotor Sails will save 8.2% fuel. Performance depends on the vessel, route and wind conditions, as well as installation geometry and how the equipment is operated. A useful comparison between propulsion options needs like-for-like vessel and route data, and it should distinguish measured results from forecasts.

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In the trial-results release, Maersk Tankers Chief Technical Officer Tommy Thomassen said crew and operators had reported positively on the Rotor Sails’ usability, safety and performance during the one-year trial. That statement reflects the company’s report of the trial, not a substitute for independently available performance data.

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