Fulture fuels

The world needs more energy than ever before. This means we need a sustainable system that can meet its growing demands, while also addressing CO2emissions and the overall impact on the environment. A system that can keep communities running, even as the energy transition takes place. One possible solution is hydrogen, which has potential as a lower-emissions energy carrier that could support significant emissions reductions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors, such as heavy-duty transport, heating, and power production. With our track record in technology leadership, upstream low-carbon intensity, and low-cost oil and gas production, we see significant potential in large-scale, cost-competitive hydrogen production. However, hydrogen is expensive to transport. So how could we make it commercially viable to deliver this lower-emissions energy around the world?

Change the way we think about alternative energy sources?

Hydrogen is believed to have enormous potential, and we will continue our efforts to show how that potential can become a reality. Unlocking future opportunities to power industries such as steel, cement, and transportation, support grid-balancing, and even heat our homes. Ultimately, we want to help keep our communities powered for decades to come.

Why Hydrogen?

Hydrogen is not only the most abundant element in the universe. It could also play an essential role in tomorrow’s energy mix, from fueling cars, trains, trucks, and ships to generating electricity and heating buildings. That’s because it’s a colorless, clean fuel that emits only water when burnt or oxidized. Its potential as an energy carrier is therefore a key part of our vision to deliver a lower-emissions future with today’s infrastructure and help meet tomorrow’s needs for people and the planet.

A circular carbon economy

For over a decade, we’ve explored potential technologies to produce high-purity hydrogen from hydrocarbons, including Thermo-Neutral Reforming (TNR) and a catalyst for converting diesel into hydrogen.From day one, our ambition has been to create “blue” hydrogen – extracting the valuable gas while also capturing all the CO2 emissions. When methane burns it creates hydrogen and CO2, but what makes blue hydrogen different is that we capture these CO2 emissions and then inject and sequester them (store them in sinks). This forms part of our vision for a circular carbon economy.We use two innovative technologies to utilize the captured CO2. The first involves injecting it into one of our oil reservoirs for Enhanced Oil Recovery, while the other takes the waste CO2 and converts it into chemicals, such as methanol, for industrial use. Any additional CO2 can also be safely sequestered deep underground.

Reference: https://www.aramco.com/en/what-we-do/energy-innovation/advancing-energy-solutions/blue-hydrogen-and-blue-ammonia
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