Gentari, City Energy to study Malaysia-Singapore hydrogen pipeline

Gentari Sdn Bhd and Singapore’s sole piped town gas provider City Energy Pte Ltd have signed an agreement to study the feasibility of constructing a pipeline for importing hydrogen from Malaysia into Singapore.

Gentari, the clean energy platform of Malaysian state-owned oil and gas company Petronas, and City Energy, a subsidiary of Keppel Infrastructure Trust, are taking the idea a step forward after signing a memorandum of understanding in April this year.

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The companies will carry out the study over 12 months and then decide on a FEED (front end engineering design) agreement.

Hydrogen is the primary component in the town gas produced at City Energy's Senoko Gasworks plant in northern Singapore. This makes City Energy one of Singapore’s largest last-mile distributors of hydrogen. The parties will explore a pipeline supplying hydrogen into the Senoko Gasworks plant.

The announcement notes that hydrogen plays an essential role in Singapore’s goal of achieving net zero by 2050. Hydrogen also has an important place in Malaysia’s energy transition. Its National Energy Transition Roadmap and Hydrogen Economy and Technology Roadmap involve seeking bilateral agreements with key importing nations to develop a low-carbon hydrogen value chain.

“In line with our aim to produce up to 1.2 million tonnes per annum of clean hydrogen, Gentari is pleased to contribute towards accelerating the development of clean hydrogen through cross-border infrastructure, supporting Malaysia and Singapore’s target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050,” said Gentari’s chief hydrogen officer Michele Azalbert.

Singapore is importing natural gas from Malaysia through a 2,623-kilometre (1,629 mile) pipeline, owned by Petronas Gas Bhd.