Air Liquide, Chevron Corporation, LyondellBasell, and Uniper have announced their intent to collaborate on a joint study that will evaluate and potentially advance the development of a hydrogen and ammonia production facility along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The facility could support industrial decarbonization and mobility applications in the region and expand clean ammonia exports, helping to increase the supply of lower carbon power internationally.
The potential project to be studied is intended to cover the end-to-end energy value chain, utilizing each participant’s technical expertise in production, operational experience, storage, distribution, and export logistics.
The consortium will assess the potential for producing hydrogen using natural gas with carbon capture and renewable hydrogen via electrolysis to supply end-use markets, including the ammonia, petrochemicals, power, and mobility markets.
If development proceeds, the project could leverage existing advantages along the Gulf Coast, including pipeline infrastructure, to supply lower carbon and renewable hydrogen to local industrial clusters. Likewise, ammonia infrastructure could support exports to both Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
The Gulf Coast is the ideal location to model hydrogen and carbon capture technologies as immediate pathways to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors
said Adam Peters, CEO of Air Liquide North America.
As for Austin Knight, Vice President of Hydrogen, Chevron New Energies, he emphasized the importance of cooperation, saying that “across the value chain, collaborations are critical to developing a hydrogen ecosystem.”