OCI NV, Amsterdam, on March 31 announced a partnership with the NortH2 Consortium with the intent to develop the first integrated green ammonia and methanol value chains through large-scale green hydrogen supply by NortH2 to OCI’s plants in the Netherlands. NortH2 is a large-scale offshore wind-to-hydrogen electrolysis project being developed in the Eemshaven area.
OCI said joining forces with NortH2 will provide it with a stable and large-scale supply of green hydrogen, which allows the company to decarbonize its production processes and meet growing demand from its customers in the downstream value chain for renewable hydrogen.
OCI said its production assets are strategically located and ideally positioned to connect to the NortH2 project and the planned hydrogen pipeline backbone of Gasunie in the Netherlands. It said some 1 GW of NortH2’s green hydrogen would be used in OCI’s production processes and would correspond to 900,000 mt direct CO2 reduction per year, which would constitute a significant 4 percent of the 2030 Climate targets set for Dutch industry.
During its current feasibility phase NortH2 consists of Equinor, RWE, Shell, and Gasunie, with the support of Groningen Sea Ports. Eneco, a sustainable energy company with operations in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and the U.K., has announced it will also join the consortium as an investment partner. Eneco, Shell, Equinor, and RWE plan to continue together after the joint study phase and produce a large-scale supply for the industry of up to 4 GW by 2030.