Covered in Interfax today - Shell are building Europe’s largest Green Hydrogen plant in Holland producing 60 tons of Hydrogen per day from 2025.
Likely lots of electrolyzers needed so good for platinum prices globally if so.
https://www.interfax.ru/business/850974
Speaking of China - double whammy of Battery Metals and PGMs needed in these hybrids from BYD Co. in China which are classed as 0 emissions cars there:
https://www.interfax.ru/business/850563
641k cars sold in H1 (many if which were hybrids) Vs 546k Tesla.
Also mentioned the other day about Audi’s €2.6b JV with FAW for a electric vehicle factory in China. China is seeing a rise in Covid cases now but these types of projects will be important in helping their economy recover long term.
For Russia, shipping some of the metals east is appealing in itself as they need cargo for the Northern Sea Route as well.
New factory making electrolyzers used to produce Green Hydrogen announced towards the end of June. I’m not suggesting any link to EUA but the product requires Platinum and Iridium which the German Raw Materials Agency says the supply chain for is higher risk.
“Due to the ramp-up of hydrogen production, a high supply risk is already emerging as a result of the low annual production volume, as shown in the projections of the German Raw Materials Agency (DERA).”
The more the better in terms of these types of projects as far as WK is concerned.
https://rawmaterials.net/green-hydrogen-siemens-energy-and-air-liquide-to-cooperate/
Either that or he’s very old Mac! Just kidding, I have no idea how old he is.
Anyway, as a few people mentioned yesterday, Potanin’s sanctions don’t affect NN according to the below. If in future NN are affected by sanctions they have a “Plan B” mentioned to move to eastern markets. A ready made EUA business with eastern customers in the pipeline (if we have any) might be of interest. I think we’d just need to keep exploring the other license areas to keep clear of being treated like a Kinross.
https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2022/06/29/929100-opasni-nornikelya-sanktsii
As an aside, good to see Audi investing €2.6b in an electric vehicle factory - partnering with the Chinese company FAW.
Capacity to make 150k electric vehicles per year with the factory opening in 2024.
https://www.interfax.ru/business/850020
Hopefully Kotaro is already on the phone flogging them some battery metals as we speak.
Absolutely Coco, that was hinted at a couple of weeks ago in terms of the comments about the Japanese who are also affected:
http://duma.gov.ru/news/54617/
Yet they are still courting new international trade and investment there and are speaking with countries like Canada and South Korea who have also implemented sanctions.
Interesting times but the Shell scenario hasn’t come out of the blue and Russia still needs new investment.
Quite a long read and nothing show-stopping but good to see the regional authorities hosting delegates from South Korea, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore to discuss ways of increasing trade and investment yesterday.
Couple of points:
- The purpose of the event is to establish business relations with Sakhalin business. Experts came to get acquainted with the export opportunities of the region, as well as to see new entrepreneurs ready to export in the countries represented
- Canada is one of the sanctions countries, we are sure that we can also find common ground with them. To date, we have a fairly wide range of interests in the field of production, for which we are actively searching for new corridors in the current economic conditions
- We are interested in the possibility of obtaining investments to create industrial goods in the region. We expect that as a result of the exchange of views at today's event with business representatives of Sakhalin, ways of interaction and development will be formed
- Koreans continue to purchase our energy resources in an enhanced mode. The list of export bans is constantly being modernized, and a number of goods are gradually removed from the prohibited list
Points taken from below so link posted for context:
https://sakhalinmedia.ru/news/amp/1314393/
Not surprised one bit about the Sakhalin2 news for LNG. The Duma said they were working on that area recently and I shared the link at the time. Interesting they don’t want to exclude them completely but require a Russian company to have a controlling stake for the LNG project.
BoD clearly know what they are doing, having already shifted the asset sale focus to local and other BRICS buyers. I think they’ll qualify interest, assess offers and the directives coming from the government and make a decision as whether to wait out the war for better terms or sell if conditions dictate.
In the mean time it’s a case of buy, sell, hold and thanks to the posters who shared that our share register had been updated yesterday showing what DS etc are doing.
Thread reminds me of Gogglebox for some reason - people on a chat board talking about what some people have seen on another type of chat board. If the people on Advfn or whatever it’s called cotton on it will take it to unchartered territory.
Hope so Belstaf, first and foremost for the Ukrainians.
Example here of South Korean companies pausing but not cancelling Hydrogen related contacts with Russia:
https://www.finam.ru/amp/news/koreiyskie-kompanii-ne-namereny-prekrashat-sotrudnichestvo-s-rf-v-sfere-vodoroda-istochniki-20220530-200441/
Also some conflicting info saying South Korean companies already want to buy assets from those Japanese and Americans that are leaving Russia but it could be duff info, I haven’t cross checked either source.
https://life.ru/p/1499720
Either way, peace would bring a far better deal to the table than selling now unless the BoD announces something they want to recommend in which case it will be because circumstances dictate they recommend it.
He’s subject to a travel ban and his UK assets are frozen according to the BBC - due to him owning Rosbank and having shares in Tinkoff Bank. Not sure if this would affect NN though unless sanctions are escalated. Risky since we don’t have many other options to get Pd in the West.
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Mitsubishi could be linked based on Kotaro’s background with them and their mid term strategy to 2024 (released in May) states 1.2 trillion yen for major investments in renewable energy, battery metals, next generation energy (hydrogen, ammonia, biomass).
https://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/about/plan/pdf/mcs2024_220510.pdf
It’s not clear if the Russians would allow a Japanese buyer under the existing sanctions climate but there again Putin has stated that the artic projects should not be put on hold but accelerated so who knows!
http://duma.gov.ru/news/54617/
BoD were delighted to be progressing several transactions at the same time before the war so hopefully a good result will come and we’ll get an update with the accounts.
Perhaps this article raises more questions than answers but it’s reassuring to see how important the hydrogen cluster project is at Sakhalin and work continues with adjustments and additional markets being identified.
Clearly Sakhalin is only one aspect of EUA’s hydrogen strategy, but I think we’ll need our reading glasses and an after hours RNS to get up to speed as and when the BoD is able to release an update. It will be interesting to see if Mitsubishi are still involved in Sakhalin generally and if they have anything to do with our projects.
https://www.eastrussia.ru/material/tumannoe-budushchee-zhdet-vodorodnye-proekty-sakhalina/