BP Plans New Hydrogen Hub in Germany

  • BP Plc has revealed that it will look into constructing a new hydrogen Hub
  • The plant, having an initial capacity of 130,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year, could be expanded if demand for new fuels grows.

BP Plc has revealed that it will look into constructing a new hydrogen Hub. The hub is to be situated on Germany’s North Sea coast in Wilhelmshaven, which would provide up to 130,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually from green ammonia, starting in 2028.

In BP’s plan, Wilhemshaven is to have green ammonia supplied to it from BP’s hydrogen projects. The fuel will then be converted into green hydrogen by a cracker built in the port city to split the ammonia molecule into nitrogen and hydrogen.

BP has also revealed that the plant, having an initial capacity of 130,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year, could be expanded if demand for new fuels grows.

BP also plans to use existing oil pipelines and repurpose existing gas pipeline infrastructure to transport hydrogen to customers in the Ruhr area and other centres of demand.

The import facility will complement the group’s global hydrogen project portfolio. The British giant is developing several sites for hydrogen production and ammonia export in the Middle East, Africa and Australia, which could meet part of the European demand.

Commenting on the plan, Lower Saxony’s state minister of environment, Christian Meyer, said that the state must ensure affordable, climate-neutral and secure energy supply to be competitive as an industrial location in the long term, and the BP hydrogen hub in Wilhelmshaven could play an important role in this process.

BP is already involved in other hydrogen projects in Germany, such as the Get H2 Nukleus and Lingen Green Hydrogen initiatives which are meant to support the decarbonisation of energy-intensive sectors such as the chemical and steel industries.

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