Sept 8 (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsubishi Corp and
Shell Canada have signed a memorandum of understanding
to produce low-carbon hydrogen to support Japan's push for clean
energy, the companies announced on Wednesday.
Mitsubishi plans to build and start up the low-carbon
hydrogen facility near Shell's Scotford, Alberta, facility
toward the latter half of this decade, the companies said in a
statement https://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/pr/archive/2021/html/0000047710.html.
The companies aim to produce about 165,000 tons per annum of
hydrogen in the first phase of the project, which would be
converted to low-carbon ammonia for export to Asian markets.
The low-carbon hydrogen, or blue hydrogen, would be produced
via a natural gas feedstock and exported mainly to the Japanese
market to produce clean energy, the companies said.
Shell would provide CO2 storage via its proposed Polaris
carbon capture and storage project near Edmonton.
Shell in July unveiled its Polaris CCS project, joining a
number of other companies proposing clean energy initiatives in
Canada's main oil-producing province. The project would have the
capacity to store 300 million tonnes of carbon over its
lifetime.
Alberta, home to Canada's oil sands, is aiming to become a
hub for carbon storage and hydrogen production as the world
moves away from fossil fuel consumption and tries to cut
climate-warming carbon emissions.
(Reporting by Rahul Paswan and Swati Verma in Bengaluru;
Editing by Mark Porter)
