Air Products inks new hydrogen supply agreement with Motiva refinery in Louisiana
Air Products has agreed to a long-term deal with Motiva to supply additional hydrogen for Motiva’s Convent refinery in Louisiana.
The hydrogen supply, which has already commenced, is from Air Products' industry-leading Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline supply network that serves multiple refinery and petrochemical companies in the region, the company said.
The agreement includes the ability for Air Products to direct some of the hydrogen product supplied to Motiva's Convent refinery to other Motiva refineries along Air Products' pipeline network in both Texas and Louisiana.
"Having a highly reliable pipeline supply capability already in place was important to this contract,” said Wilbur Mok, vice president for North America tonnage gases at Air Products.
“We have supplied Motiva's Convent facility for years and have demonstrated our ability to reliably supply product to the refinery,” he continued. The additional flexibility in supply options available to customers when we connect the Texas and Louisiana hydrogen pipelines creates a lot of value.”
Air Products has been supplying hydrogen to Motiva at Convent in part from an on-site steam methane reformer facility since 2006.
Currently, Air Products operates hydrogen pipelines in both Texas and Louisiana. Work is underway to connect the two systems to make it the world's largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network.
Air Products announced plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline in 2010.
The new pipeline extension, which is in the project execution phase, will connect Air Products' Texas hydrogen system to the Louisiana hydrogen system. Once complete, Air Products' hydrogen pipeline supply network will stretch from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans.
This integrated pipeline system will unite over 20 hydrogen plants and over 600 miles of pipelines. It will supply the Louisiana and Texas refinery and petrochemical industries with over 1.2 billion cubic feet/day of hydrogen.
The new Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network is expected to be operational in 2012.
This is the second recent announcement of new hydrogen supply agreements sourced from Air Products' Gulf Coast pipeline supply network.
On Monday, Air Products announced the long-term supply of hydrogen to be used at Shell's Deer Park refinery in Texas beginning in mid-2013.
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