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Lithium-metal
Data trust
Green hydrogen
Digital contact tracing
Hyper-accurate positioning
Remote everything
Messenger RNA
GPT-3
TikTok
Multi-skilled AI
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perform a focused Google search. The search may produce results that fit your research
purposes.
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hydrogen” AND (exxonmobil OR chevron OR total OR bp OR shell OR Aramco)
One result …
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BP plans move into green hydrogen production
Oil company aims to create
clean-burning gas using wind power at German refinery
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
The Guardian, Tue 10 Nov 2020
BP plans to take its first steps into the burgeoning market for green hydrogen
alongside the offshore wind developer Ørsted by developing a hydrogen project
at one of its refineries in Germany.
The energy companies plan to create the clean-burning gas by using renewable
energy, generated by Ørsted’s North Sea wind farms, to split water into
hydrogen and oxygen at BP’s Lingen refinery from 2024.
The refinery will host an industrial-scale electrolyser with an initial
capacity of 50 megawatts which is capable of producing enough of the green gas
to replace a fifth of the refinery’s existing hydrogen demand, which relies on
fossil fuels.
The oil company’s decision to begin producing green hydrogen, which can replace
fossil-fuel gas without the carbon emissions, is an important step in its aim
to become a carbon-neutral company by 2050.
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BP has promised to reduce its fossil-fuel production by 40% over the next 10
years, and increase its investment in sustainable energy solutions such as
renewable electricity, green hydrogen and carbon capture.
Dev Sanyal, the head of BP’s low-carbon business, said hydrogen was on course
to play a growing role as the world transitions to cleaner energy sources, and
BP was “determined to build a leading position in this emerging industry”.
BP will make a final investment decision on the project in 2022, depending on
whether it can secure funding from the EU to support the project.
It is BP’s second major partnership designed to help the oil company gain a
foothold in clean energy. BP took its first steps into the offshore wind
industry in September by agreeing to buy a $1.1bn (£850m) stake in two US
offshore wind projects being developed by the Norwegian state oil company
Equinor, and develop future projects together too.
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BP hopes to grow the Lingen hydrogen project tenfold alongside Ørsted in the
coming years to produce enough green hydrogen to meet the refinery’s full
hydrogen demand, and also provide feedstock for other fuels.
Martin Neubert, Ørsted’s head of offshore wind, added: “Heavy industries such
as refineries use large quantities of hydrogen in their manufacturing
processes. They will continue to need hydrogen, but replacing the current
fossil-based hydrogen with hydrogen produced from renewable energy can help
these industries dramatically lower their CO2 footprint.
“But first, renewable hydrogen has to become cost competitive with fossil-based
hydrogen, and for that we need projects such as this with BP’s Lingen refinery
which will demonstrate the electrolyser technology at large scale and showcase
real-life application of hydrogen based on offshore wind.”
source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/10/bp-plans-move-into-green-hydrogen-production
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