Four major companies to explore clean hydrogen project at US Gulf Coast

French industrial gases supplier Air Liquide (EPA:AI), US oil group Chevron Corp (NYSE:CVX), Dutch-based chemicals company LyondellBasell (NYSE:LYB) and German energy company Uniper SE (ETR:UN01) will study together the potential development of a low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia plant along the US Gulf Coast, according to a joint statement today.

The partners will look into the possibility of producing hydrogen from natural gas with carbon, capture and storage (CCS) and renewable hydrogen through electrolysis.

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The facility could supply local industrial clusters and export clean ammonia. The project would encompass the end-to-end, energy value chain, according to the announcement, making use of the partners’ various expertise.

Marc Merrill, Uniper’s North America head, said potential supply from the project could make a key contribution to the company’s goal of receiving around 1 million tonnes per year of clean ammonia at its Wilhelmshaven terminal in Germany by the end of the decade.