Offshore staff
STAVANGER, Norway — Equinor has issued a FEED contract to Linde Engineering for the H2H Saltend hydrogen production/carbon capture development in northeast England. Captured CO2 will be stored in North Sea reservoirs as part of the East Coast Cluster project.
Linde company BOC will provide operations and maintenance services for the complex under a separate contract. Both Linde and BOC participated in a design competition to provide FEED proposals, with options for EPC as well as operation and maintenance for the first five years, subject to the EPC option being exercised.
The 600-MW H2H Saltend project is designed to establish the industrial Humber region as an international hub for low-carbon hydrogen. Linde will combine its hydrogen and air separation processes with Johnson Matthey’s LCH technology for the design of the plant at the Saltend Chemicals Park, east of Hull.
The new complex, due to be operational by 2027, should help cut the park’s emissions by up to one-third, with low-carbon hydrogen replacing natural gas in various industrial facilities to cut the carbon intensity of their products, as well as being blended into natural gas at the Equinor and SSE Thermal’s onsite Saltend power station.
About 890,000 metric tons per year of carbon should be stored.
H2H Saltend will kick-start the wider Zero Carbon Humber scheme, providing infrastructure from the Easington terminal to Drax. The aim is to make the Humber, said to be the UK’s most-carbon intensive industrial region, net-zero in terms of emissions by 2040.
01.30.2023
