team work
ExxonMobil’s low-carbon hydrogen project in Baytown adds Air Liquide as partner
Spring-based energy giant ExxonMobil has enlisted Air Liquide as a partner for what’s being billed as the world’s largest low-carbon hydrogen project.
The deal will enable transportation of ExxonMobil’s low-carbon hydrogen through Air Liquide’s pipeline network. Furthermore, Air Liquide will build and operate four units to supply 9,000 metric tons of oxygen and up to 6,500 metric tons of nitrogen each day for the ExxonMobil project.
Air Liquide’s U.S. headquarters is in Houston.
ExxonMobil’s hydrogen production facility is planned for the company’s 3,400-acre Baytown refining and petrochemical complex. The project is expected to produce 1 billion cubic feet of low-carbon hydrogen daily from natural gas and more than 1 million tons of low-carbon ammonia annually while capturing more than 98 percent of the associated carbon emissions.
“Momentum continues to build for the world’s largest low-carbon hydrogen project and the emerging hydrogen market,” Dan Ammann, president of ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions, says in a news release.
The hydrogen project is expected to come online in 2027 or 2028.
ExxonMobil says using hydrogen to fuel its olefins plant at Baytown could reduce sitewide carbon emissions by as much as 30 percent. Meanwhile, the carbon capture and storage (CSUS) component of the project would be capable of storing 10 million metric tons of carbon each year, the company says.
- ExxonMobil's CCUS acquisition, geothermal energy breakthrough, and more trending Houston news ›
- ExxonMobil profit declines in Q1 as natural gas prices fall ›
- ExxonMobil invests $17M with nonprofit to fund more STEM instruction, resources ›
- ExxonMobil, Intel eye sustainable solutions within data center innovation ›
- Houston energy company buys in on plastic recycling ›
- ExxonMobil adds energy transition leader, investor to board ›
- ExxonMobil breaks ground on Texas carbon dioxide storage project ›
- ExxonMobil updates corporate plan that aims to lower emissions ›
- Breaking news: ExxonMobil's HQ officially changed to Houston ›