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Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland)--The Port of Rotterdam is fast becoming one the world's leading locations for hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, and now the Dutch government looks set to provide about 2 billion euro ($2.4 billion) in financial support to accelerate its leading projects.
Four companies--Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS-A) (The Hague, Netherlands), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) (Irving, Texas), and industrial gas suppliers Air Liquide (Paris, France) and Air Products and Chemicals Incorporated (NYSE:APD) (Allentown, Pennsylvania)--look set to benefit after having applied for financial support in January. The companies are all working on a number of CCS and hydrogen projects and the money will help offset the costs of trying to capture the carbon from their activities at the port.
Sjaak Poppe, a spokesman for the Port of Rotterdam Authority, told media: "The government has made it clear to the four companies that want to be a part of this project. The government will fill the gap between the emissions trading system and the actual cost of the project."
The projects run under the umbrella Porthos initiative (Port of Rotterdam CO2 Transportation Hub and Offshore Storage), which is set on reducing emissions from the port's industries. The port is the largest in Europe and also is home to Europe's largest refining complex. Porthos is developing a project in which CO2 from industry in the Port of Rotterdam is transported and stored in empty gas fields beneath the North Sea. The CO2 will be captured by various companies and transferred by a collective pipeline that runs through the Rotterdam port area. The CO2 will then be pressurised in a compressor station before being transported through an offshore pipeline to a platform in the North Sea, approximately 20 kilometres off the coast. From this platform, the CO2 will be pumped into an empty gas field more than 3 kilometres beneath the North Sea. The project aims to store roughly 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
Industrial Info is tracking all of the key Porthos projects and those of the key companies. Shell is constructing a CCS facility at its Pernis refinery at the port to capture up to 500,000 tons of CO2. ExxonMobil, via its Esso Netherlands company, is building a similar facility at its Rotterdam refinery. Also at Pernis, Shell is investing 200 million euro ($243 million) to build a 200-megawatt (MW) hydrogen electrolyser plant to create 60 tonnes of hydrogen per day to be used at the refinery. Air Liquide is constructing a carbon capture facility using its Cryocap technology at the Botlek Hydrogen and Syngas Production Plant. Cryocap captures CO2 released during hydrogen production via a cryogenic process. It has been in use at Air Liquide's hydrogen plant in Port Jerome, France, for a number of years and can capture 100,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.
In February, Industrial Info reported that the Port of Rotterdam had inked a deal with power company Uniper to investigate creating a green hydrogen plant on the site of one of Uniper's power plants by 2025. The plant initially will have a capacity of 100 MW, with the aim of expanding this capacity to 500 MW. For additional information, see February 16, 2021, article--New Hydrogen Plant in The Works for Port of Rotterdam.
In related news, an international alliance of 45 companies, knowledge institutes and port authorities, headed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, has been awarded nearly 25 million euro ($30 million) by the EU for 10 pilot and demonstration projects. The projects cover areas including green hydrogen, large electric batteries, ammonia and bio-LNG.
"Each of these has its own advantages and challenges, with one option seeming more suited to shipping, another to applications within the port or transport to destinations in the hinterland," the port authority said. "Some links in the chain from production to consumption have already been tested; others have not. The consortium's broad, international research programme primarily focuses on those aspects in the use of new fuels and energy carriers that have not yet been tested in practice. This includes production, transport, storage, distribution (fuels) and charging (electric power)."
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Four companies--Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS-A) (The Hague, Netherlands), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) (Irving, Texas), and industrial gas suppliers Air Liquide (Paris, France) and Air Products and Chemicals Incorporated (NYSE:APD) (Allentown, Pennsylvania)--look set to benefit after having applied for financial support in January. The companies are all working on a number of CCS and hydrogen projects and the money will help offset the costs of trying to capture the carbon from their activities at the port.
Sjaak Poppe, a spokesman for the Port of Rotterdam Authority, told media: "The government has made it clear to the four companies that want to be a part of this project. The government will fill the gap between the emissions trading system and the actual cost of the project."
The projects run under the umbrella Porthos initiative (Port of Rotterdam CO2 Transportation Hub and Offshore Storage), which is set on reducing emissions from the port's industries. The port is the largest in Europe and also is home to Europe's largest refining complex. Porthos is developing a project in which CO2 from industry in the Port of Rotterdam is transported and stored in empty gas fields beneath the North Sea. The CO2 will be captured by various companies and transferred by a collective pipeline that runs through the Rotterdam port area. The CO2 will then be pressurised in a compressor station before being transported through an offshore pipeline to a platform in the North Sea, approximately 20 kilometres off the coast. From this platform, the CO2 will be pumped into an empty gas field more than 3 kilometres beneath the North Sea. The project aims to store roughly 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
Industrial Info is tracking all of the key Porthos projects and those of the key companies. Shell is constructing a CCS facility at its Pernis refinery at the port to capture up to 500,000 tons of CO2. ExxonMobil, via its Esso Netherlands company, is building a similar facility at its Rotterdam refinery. Also at Pernis, Shell is investing 200 million euro ($243 million) to build a 200-megawatt (MW) hydrogen electrolyser plant to create 60 tonnes of hydrogen per day to be used at the refinery. Air Liquide is constructing a carbon capture facility using its Cryocap technology at the Botlek Hydrogen and Syngas Production Plant. Cryocap captures CO2 released during hydrogen production via a cryogenic process. It has been in use at Air Liquide's hydrogen plant in Port Jerome, France, for a number of years and can capture 100,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.
In February, Industrial Info reported that the Port of Rotterdam had inked a deal with power company Uniper to investigate creating a green hydrogen plant on the site of one of Uniper's power plants by 2025. The plant initially will have a capacity of 100 MW, with the aim of expanding this capacity to 500 MW. For additional information, see February 16, 2021, article--New Hydrogen Plant in The Works for Port of Rotterdam.
In related news, an international alliance of 45 companies, knowledge institutes and port authorities, headed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, has been awarded nearly 25 million euro ($30 million) by the EU for 10 pilot and demonstration projects. The projects cover areas including green hydrogen, large electric batteries, ammonia and bio-LNG.
"Each of these has its own advantages and challenges, with one option seeming more suited to shipping, another to applications within the port or transport to destinations in the hinterland," the port authority said. "Some links in the chain from production to consumption have already been tested; others have not. The consortium's broad, international research programme primarily focuses on those aspects in the use of new fuels and energy carriers that have not yet been tested in practice. This includes production, transport, storage, distribution (fuels) and charging (electric power)."
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, six offices in North America and 12 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn.
