Inpex takes FID on Japanese blue hydrogen project

Japan’s Inpex has taken the final investment decision on drilling operations and the construction of facilities for its Kashiwazaki clean hydrogen and ammonia project to be implemented at its Higashi-Kashiwazaki producing gas field onshore Niigata prefecture in Japan. The project is expected to involve the transportation of gas produced at the field to the Hirai area via an existing pipeline, and the production of 700 tonnes per annum of blue hydrogen at a new facility. Part of this hydrogen will be used to produce blue ammonia with the remainder being utilised for power generation. The CO2 generated during the production of hydrogen and ammonia will be separated, pressurised and injected into a subsurface gas reservoir as a carbon capture, utilisation and storage project. Inpex said this will be Japan’s first demonstration project integrating blue hydrogen and ammonia…

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