Shell has awarded a service contract to Australian engineering agency Worley for work on its inexperienced hydrogen mission on the Port of Rotterdam, which is about to be Europe’s largest.
The deliberate Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm will energy a 200MW electrolyser on the Holland Hydrogen 1 (HH1) mission, producing inexperienced hydrogen.
As soon as full, Worley mentioned HH1 would be the largest business renewable hydrogen manufacturing services in Europe.
The ability will produce round 60,000 kg of hydrogen per day, sufficient to maintain 2,300 hydrogen vehicles rolling.
Shell will use the renewable hydrogen produced at HH1 to partially decarbonise fossil gasoline manufacturing at its Power and Chemical substances Park in Rotterdam.
The mission can even help the economic use of hydrogen within the heavy transportation trade
As a part of the contract, Worley will present detailed design and procurement, and building administration help companies.
These embrace integration work with key distributors and different property equivalent to offshore wind, pipelines, electrical grids and the refinery.
Worley will ship the work from its workplaces in The Hague and Mumbai, India.
Worley group president Mark Trueman mentioned the HH1 mission showcases the crucial partnership between the 2 companies to ship “progressive large-scale renewable hydrogen infrastructure”.
“We respect Shell’s confidence and are dedicated to working with Shell and the opposite key distributors to ship this vital mission,” he mentioned.
Shell’s Holland Hydrogen mission
Shell took a last funding determination (FID) on the Holland Hydrogen I facility in 2022, with the mission set to be operational by 2025.
Hydrogen produced on the plant can be transported through the HyTransPort pipeline to the substitute among the gray (fossil fuel-derived) hydrogen at the moment utilized in its refinery on the Port of Rotterdam.
Shell mentioned it might assist to “partially decarbonise” among the facility’s vitality merchandise equivalent to petrol and diesel and jet gasoline.
Asserting the FID on the time, Shell’s govt vp for rising vitality options Anna Mascolo mentioned renewable hydrogen will play a pivotal function within the vitality system of the longer term.
“This mission is a vital step in serving to hydrogen fulfil that potential,” Ms Mascolo mentioned.
Whereas Shell is transferring forward with HH1, questions have been raised about its dedication to its low-carbon options sector after the corporate reduce 200 jobs in October final 12 months.
Advisable for you