![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, the company's $4.5 billion blue hydrogen complex coming to the Louisiana coast in 2026 will convert some of its hydrogen into ammonia for exports. Some of those projects are poised to produce hydrogen for global exports. Together, the $15 billion worth of projects will bring more than 3,600 mt/d of clean hydrogen to the global market within the next five years, a company spokesperson said. In total, Air Products has more than a half-dozen green and blue hydrogen projects in the works across North America. US importing regions vs exporting regions The same goes for Air Products' other green hydrogen projects in the Western US - a 10 mt/d plant in Arizona slated to come online this year, and a 200 mt/day plant in Texas expected for 2027. In California, any hydrogen imported by Air Products would be likely be used to decarbonize heavy industry and heavy-duty trucking, Guter said. "It would not work if they were not competitive against local domestically-produced products." ![]() "Sheer market forces will require that our NEOM product, wherever it would be imported to, would have to compete with domestically-based projects, so we understand that," Guter said. "All of these efforts are intended to align to support an end-to-end system and grow the hydrogen economy to self-sustainability," California Senator Josh Newman, chairman of the Select Committee on Transitioning to a Zero-Emission Energy Future, said in reaction to Ghasemi's comment.Īlthough Air Product's importing plans are not yet cemented, Guter said that the company is looking to market its NEOM-produced hydrogen to any country with a supportive policy regime. However, that plan has perplexed other industry observers who say that it contradicts the intent of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, both of which are designed to make domestically produced hydrogen as competitive as possible. In his remarks, Ghasemi said that California is an especially attractive export market owing to the state's policy support for green hydrogen, especially the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, or LCFS, which subsidizes clean fuels used to decarbonize the state's transportation sector. The $8.5 billion facility would harness the kingdom's abundant renewable resources to produce 600 mt/d of green hydrogen, which will be shipped around the world in the form of ammonia. The NEOM project, which is being developed through a partnership with Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power Co., would be the world's largest green hydrogen-based ammonia facility once it comes online in 2027. The idea of Air Products importing green hydrogen into California was raised by Ghasemi March 8 during CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, where he publicly stated that most of the hydrogen produced at the NEOM Green Hydrogen Complex in Saudi "will be sold either in Europe or in the state of California." That's why all the projects that we're comfortable talking about, because those are projects that our board has sanctioned." "We make announcements when we have made definitive decisions. "It's not something that we're discussing publicly," Guter, Air Products' vice president of global hydrogen for mobility, said. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience.
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