Norwegian energy company Equinor has awarded a Feed contract for its 600MW H2H Saltend blue hydrogen project to industrial gases firm Linde, as well as an operation and maintenance service contract to Linde-owned BOC.

Linde will include its hydrogen and air separation technologies in the project design, which will be used in combination with UK firm Johnson Matthey’s LCH blue hydrogen technology.

H2H Saltend, sited at the Saltend Chemicals Park in the UK’s Humber region, was shortlisted by the UK government as one of four large-scale blue hydrogen projects for connection to the East Coast Cluster for CCUS infrastructure. Equinor targets operations to begin in 2027, with the hydrogen used to directly replace natural gas in industrial processes. The firm will also blend hydrogen into the gas-fired on-site power station at the chemicals park.

890,000t/yr – H2H Saltend CCS rate

H2H Saltend could capture and store 890,000t/yr of CO₂ and will reduce the Saltend Chemicals Park’s emissions by a third, Equinor estimates.

Equinor last year submitted a government funding bid for a second, 1.2GW blue hydrogen project located in the Humber region. Combined, the two projects would produce nearly a fifth of the UK’s 10GW low-carbon hydrogen production target.

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Author: Polly Martin