Air Products contracts Technip to help build new Texas hydrogen plant

Technip was awarded a contract by Air Products to provide technology, engineering and procurement services for a grassroots hydrogen plant in Baytown, Texas, officials announced on Friday. 

The 3.5 million standard cubic meters/day plant will produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide (CO) to be supplied to customers from Air Products’ established Gulf Coast Hydrogen and CO Pipeline networks.

The plant will be built through the global hydrogen alliance between Air Products and Technip. It will feature Technip’s proprietary, high-efficiency steam methane reforming (SMR) technology to produce high-purity hydrogen, carbon monoxide and export steam. 

It will also use the latest nitrogen oxide reduction technology to reduce emissions.

Technip’s operating center in Claremont, California, will execute the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2018.

"We are proud that our SMR technology is helping customers meet the world’s growing energy needs  in a reliable, efficient and sustainable manner," said Stan Knez, president of Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology. 

"We look forward to executing this new project under our global alliance with Air Products," he added. "This is the longest and most productive global hydrogen alliance supporting the oil and gas industry around the world.”