Equinor awards contracts for its H2H Saltend hydrogen plant project

Date Published : January 6, 2022
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Equinor has announced that Pre-FEED (Front End Engineering and Design) study contracts have been awarded to develop 600 megawatt H2H Saltend low carbon hydrogen production plant, one of the world’s first at-scale facilities to produce hydrogen from natural gas in combination with carbon capture and storage.

The study will also be used to support the delivery of a further 1,200 megawatt of low-carbon hydrogen production. This hydrogen will be principally used to fuel the Keadby Hydrogen power station, which could be the world’s first large scale facility to use 100% hydrogen to generate power.
These projects bring combined hydrogen production capacity of 1.8 GW, accounting for a third of the UK Government’s 5GW low carbon hydrogen production goal.

Equinor’s H2H Saltend hydrogen plant and Keadby Hydrogen power station, which is being developed in partnership with SSE Thermal, are Equinor’s first two UK hydrogen projects that support the wider ambition to decarbonise the Humber and develop the UK’s first net-zero industrial cluster by 2040.

The contractors will participate in a competition to provide design proposals, as well as a lump sum FEED and option for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) execution and operations.
The three selected contractors are KBR & Tecnimont consortium, Technip Energies consortium as well as Linde through its businesses at Linde Engineering and BOC UK. They all have extensive experience and relevant licenses with hydrogen, ammonia, and CO2 capture technologies. The market showed huge interest for the projects and the consortia were chosen through a 6-month prequalification process. At the end of 2022 the plan is to select one of the consortia to move into the final stage of engineering (FEED) in preparation for a Final Investment decision in later 2023.

Further information about the project and what supplier opportunities are available 

 

 

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