據路透社3月18日倫敦報道，英國能源集團英國石油(BP)周四表示，計劃到2030年建成英國最大的氫工廠，這是英國推動使用氫燃料、減少溫室氣體排放的舉措之一。

位于英格蘭北部的提賽德工廠將擁有高達1吉瓦(GW)的所謂“藍氫”產能，約為英國在2020年之前5吉瓦目標的五分之一。

藍氫是通過將天然氣轉化為氫氣并儲存其生產過程中排放的二氧化碳來生產的。

英英國石油公司已經開始對該項目進行可行性研究，以探索能夠捕獲氫氣生產過程中高達98%的碳排放的技術。英國石油公司表示，被稱為H2Teesside的提賽德項目預計每年可捕獲多達200萬噸二氧化碳(CO2)，并通過管道將其儲存在北海下方。

H2Teesside將與Net Zero Teesside(NZT)聯系起來，NZT是一個規劃中的工業區，也將與碳捕獲和儲存項目聯系起來。英國石油公司補充說，這些氫氣還可以用于該地區居民家庭供暖或用于運輸。

各國政府和能源公司正押下重注，希望清潔氫能在降低溫室氣體排放的努力中發揮主導作用，但其未來的用途和成本還很不確定。

英國周三宣布了一項工業低碳化戰略，旨在通過包括碳捕集和氫氣在內的項目，在15年內將工業的排放量減少三分之二。

"在實現凈零碳排放的道路上，清潔氫氣是電氣化的重要補充，"BP天然氣和低碳能源主管Dev Sanyal說。

"藍氫也可以在使難以電氣化的行業脫碳和推動降低能源轉型成本方面發揮重要作用。"

該公司表示，將在2024年初對H2Teeside項目做出最終投資決定，并可能在2027年或更早開始生產。

挪威能源公司Equinor去年宣布，計劃在英格蘭北部的亨伯地區建造一座藍色氫工廠。

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BP plans to build Britain's largest hydrogen plant

Energy group BP aims to build Britain’s largest hydrogen plant by 2030, it said on Thursday, as part of the country’s push to boost use of the fuel and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The Teesside plant in northern England will have capacity of up to 1 gigawatt (GW) of so-called blue hydrogen, about a fifth of Britain’s target of 5 GW of hydrogen capacity by the end of the decade.

Blue hydrogen is produced by converting natural gas into hydrogen and storing the CO2 emissions from its production.

BP has begun a feasibility study on the project to explore technologies that could capture up to 98% of carbon emissions from the hydrogen production process. The Teesside project, dubbed H2Teesside, is expected to capture up to two million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year and pipe it into storage below the North Sea, BP said.

H2Teesside will be linked with Net Zero Teesside (NZT), a planned industrial zone that will also be linked to a carbon capture and storage project. The hydrogen could also be used for heating residential homes in the region or for transportation, BP added.

Governments and energy companies are placing large bets on clean hydrogen playing a leading role in efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but its future uses and costs are highly uncertain.

Britain on Wednesday announced an industrial decarbonisation strategy aiming to cut emissions from industry by two thirds in 15 years through projects including carbon capture and hydrogen.

“Clean hydrogen is an essential complement to electrification on the path to net-zero carbon emissions,” said Dev Sanyal, BP’s head of gas and low carbon energy.

“Blue hydrogen ... can also play an essential role in decarbonising hard-to-electrify industries and driving down the cost of the energy transition.”

The company will make a final investment decision on the H2Teeside project in early 2024 and production could begin in 2027 or earlier, it said.

Norwegian energy company Equinor last year announced plans to construct a blue hydrogen plant in the Humber region in northern England.