Linde has signed a long-term agreement with oil and gas firm ExxonMobil for the off-take of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its new clean hydrogen production site in Beaumont, Texas, said the company.
Back in February (2023), the industrial gas giant said it would invest $1.8bn to build, own and operate an on-site complex to supply clean hydrogen and nitrogen to OCI Global’s “world-scale” blue ammonia plant in Texas.
The facility will be integrated into Linde’s existing infrastructure along the US Gulf Coast and will also supply clean hydrogen to other new and existing off-takers across the network.
ExxonMobil has now agreed to annually transport and permanently store up to 2.2 million metric tonnes of CO2 from the production site: the equivalent to the emissions from nearly half a million cars per year. Dan Ammann, President of ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions, said the project is another significant step towards achieving heavy industry’s decarbonisation and Net Zero goals.
Dan Yankowski, Senior Vice-President Americas at Linde, adds, “Working with ExxonMobil as the CO2 off-taker at our Beaumont project supports Linde’s strategy to decarbonise customer processes while safely and reliably supplying low-carbon hydrogen at scale."
The significance of the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to the project is clear and acknowledged. The IRA was confirmed in August 2022 and includes a significant package of mostly supply-side measures supporting low-carbon energy sources and decarbonising technologies in the US.
We remind, Exxon Mobil Corp's Low Carbon business has the potential to generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue and outperform the company's traditional oil and gas as soon as a decade from now, CEO Darren Woods said. The largest U.S. oil producer on Tuesday laid out to investors the aims of its emerging energy transition strategy in a meeting with Wall Street. Exxon is tackling what should be a multi-trillion market in 10 years or more, Woods said.
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