ExxonMobil announced the award of a contract for the front-end engineering and design of the world’s largest low-carbon hydrogen production facility (FEED). A final investment decision for the project is anticipated by 2024, pending support from stakeholders, regulatory approval, and market conditions.
It is anticipated that ExxonMobil’s Baytown low-carbon hydrogen, ammonia, and carbon capture facility will produce one billion cubic feet of low-carbon hydrogen per day, making it the world’s largest low-carbon hydrogen project when it begins operations in 2027-2028.
More than 98% of the facility’s CO2 emissions, or approximately 7 million metric tonnes per year, are anticipated to be captured and permanently stored. In addition, the project’s carbon capture and storage network will be made available to third-party CO2 emitters in the region to support their decarbonization efforts.
“This project allows us to offer significant volumes of low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia to third party customers in support of their decarbonization efforts,” said Dan Ammann, president of ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions. “In addition, the project is expected to enable up to a 30% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions from our Baytown integrated complex, by switching from natural gas as a fuel source to low-carbon hydrogen.”
ExxonMobil will combine the world’s largest low-carbon hydrogen facility with the largest olefins plant in the United States to provide customers and society with more sustainable, lower-emissions products.
Technip Energies will be responsible for the next phase of front-end engineering and design for the low-carbon hydrogen project, as awarded by ExxonMobil.