The three companies Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) of the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”), ENEOS Corporation (“ENEOS”, President: Saito Takeshi), and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”, President and CEO: Kenichi Hori), have formed a Joint Study Agreement to begin evaluating the development of a clean hydrogen supply chain between UAE and Japan.
The project aims to be developed in two phases, with first phase utilizing by-product hydrogen from ADNOC’s system in Ruwais Industrial Area in Abu Dhabi, while Phase 2 envisages greenfield blue hydrogen*1 production from natural gas. The hydrogen will be transformed to methylcyclohexane (“MCH”)*2, an efficient form of hydrogen transport vector to export to Japan. The three companies will conduct technical and engineering verification of a hydrogen production facility with a capacity of 50,000 tons per…