Hydrogen LH2 supply chain study

The study will take until the end of the year and will explore the technical and commercial viability of a LH2 supply chain, including the feasibility of having a production and liquefaction plant and export terminal at the exporting country, transportation via ocean-going tankers, as well as an import terminal, storage units and regasification facilities in Singapore.

“Hydrogen is a powerful energy carrier and is expected to play a significant role in the reduction of carbon emissions, as part of the larger energy transition that is currently underway,” said David Burns, vice president of clean energy, Linde.

“Due to its versatile nature, hydrogen can be used for many applications, including the decarbonisation of data centres,” he added.

There is growing interest worldwide in the use of hydrogen as a greener energy source and Hyundai Heavy Industries has announced plans to build a 100MW class green hydrogen demonstration facility in the Donghae floating wind farm by 2025 with a second phase to operate a 1.2GW class large-scale green hydrogen production plant by 2030.

The partners envisage that the LH2 supply infrastructure will benefit data centre facilities such as the floating data centre park project in Singapore that Keppel Data Centres is currently pursuing. “A hydrogen import terminal has the potential to transform industries like the data centre sector,” said Kees van Seventer, president, Vopak LNG.