MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shell is teaming up with three partners on a green hydrogen project in Hamburg, Germany, which includes a scalable electrolyser with an initial output of 100 megawatts (MW), said the company.
Production of green hydrogen at what would be one of the largest electrolyser plants in Europe could begin in 2025, the companies – Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Vattenfall, and Warme Hamburg.
With the project, the companies aim to develop the site at Hamburg-Moorburg into a “Green Energy Hub”, encompassing the entire hydrogen value chain - from electricity generation via offshore wind power through to the sale of green hydrogen to transport or industrial sectors, Shell's CEO for Germany, Fabian Ziegler, said.
The site is home to a Vattenfall coal-fired power plant that recently terminated commercial operations as part of Germany’s nationwide coal phase-out. The City of Hamburg and Vattenfall plan to clear part of the site for the green hydrogen project.
The partners intend to apply for funding under the EU’s programme for “Important Projects of Common European Interest” (IPCEI). Detailed investment sums were not disclosed.
As MRC informed previously, Royal Dutch Shell plc. said in November that its petrochemical complex of several billion dollars in Western Pennsylvania is about 70% complete and in the process to enter service in the early 2020s. The plant's costs are estimated to be USD6-USD10 billion, where ethane will be transformed into plastic feedstock. The facility is equipped to produce 1.5 million metric tons per year (mmty) of ethylene and 1.6 mmty of polyethylene (PE), two important constituents of plastics.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing PE and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report, PE imports to Russia decreased in January-November 2020 by 17% year on year and reached 569,900 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the greatest reduction in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia increased by 21% year on year to about 202,000 tonnes in the first eleven months of 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase in imports.
Royal Dutch Shell plc is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the biggest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading.
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