Seventeen new projects were added to our database in the last two weeks, across green and blue hydrogen.

Of the new projects, seven are in Europe (Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain & the UK), four are in Asia-Pacific (Australia & China), three in North America (Canada & the US) and three in the Middle East (Oman & the UAE).

In the UK, Neptune Energy has submitted an application to the Oil & Gas Authority for a CO2 appraisal and storage licence for the UK Southern North Sea, near its producing Cygnus gas field. The DelpHYnus project would transport and store CO2 from the South Humber Industrial area and include production facilities for blue hydrogen at the former Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal site. The 1,200MW hydrogen production plant would be capable of meeting 20pc of the UK’s 5GW target for hydrogen production by 2030. It plans to repurpose the existing CMS pipeline to a new offshore facility, which would help accelerate the timeline while reducing costs and the overall environmental impact. The Cygnus gas field could then be decarbonised and incorporated as a future CO2 storage facility.

In Australia, the H2-Hub Gladstone project is a A$1.6bn industrial-scale green hydrogen and ammonia production complex to be built by Hydrogen Utility (H2U) on a 171 hectare site in the Yarwun State Development Area in Queensland. Up to eight process trains are planned, with the project scaling up over time to reach up to 3GW of electrolyser capacity for green hydrogen production and up to 5,000t/d of green ammonia capacity—at least twice the size of a conventional natural gas-based ammonia plant. Startup of the initial phase is targeted for 2025.

In the UAE, state-owned Adnoc announced plans to build a world-scale blue ammonia project at the TA’ZIZ industrial ecosystem and chemicals hub in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi. The project, which has been moved to the design phase after contracts for initial Feed and pre-Feed were awarded to UK-based Wood, is expected to take FID in 2022 with startup targeted for 2025. The facility will have a capacity of 1mn t/yr. Adnoc is already a major producer of hydrogen and ammonia, with over 300,000t/y of hydrogen produced at the Ruwais Industrial Complex, but it has ambitions to position UAE as a hydrogen leader, with a number of agreements signed recently to explore supply opportunities with customers in key demand centres such as Japan and South Korea.

Comprehensive details can be found on the Hydrogen Data Service.