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TOWARDS CARBON NEUTRALITY
TotalEnergies plans green hydrogen Joint Venture

with Air Liquide to decarbonise its refineries

French oil & gas major, TotalEner- “Following the first partnership
gies, is joining up with industrial gases agreement with Air Liquide to supply
supplier, Air Liquide, to decarbonise the Normandy refinery with green
its refineries in Europe. hydrogen, and the agreements to supply
the Grandpuits and La Mède biorefine-
In line with its 2030 ambition to ries with renewable hydrogen, the
decarbonise the hydrogen used in its partnership with Air Liquide takes on a
European refineries, TotalEnergies has new dimension and marks a new step in
signed agreements with Air Liquide TotalEnergies’ ambition to decarbonise
to develop two projects in the Nether- the hydrogen consumed by its refineries
lands, for the production and delivery in Europe by 2030”, said Mr. Vincent
of some 45-ktpa of green hydrogen Stoquart, President, Refining & Chemi-
produced using renewable power, cals at TotalEnergies. “By supplying
generated mostly by the OranjeWind these two electrolysers with renewable
offshore wind farm, developed by electricity from our offshore wind pro-
TotalEnergies (50%) and RWE (50%). ject in the Netherlands, TotalEnergies
is leveraging its positioning as an inte-
These projects will cut CO emis- grated electricity company,” he added.
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sions from TotalEnergies’ refineries for support under European and nation-
in Belgium and Netherlands by up to al subsidy programmes. The companies “These two projects will complete
450-ktpa and contribute to European also plan to seek project funding. the five Air Liquide low carbon units
renewable energy targets in transport. already in operation or construction in
In addition, as part of Air Liquide’s Europe. This illustrates our capacity
The two companies have signed 200-MW ‘ELYgator’ electrolyser pro- to offer concrete solutions to our cus-
an agreement to set up a joint venture, ject located in Maasvlakte (Nether- tomers, to reach our carbon neutrality
equally held by TotalEnergies (50%) lands), TotalEnergies has signed a ambition by 2050, and to support
and Air Liquide (50%), which will tolling agreement for 130-MW to be Europe’s leadership ambition towards
build and operate a 250-MW electro- dedicated to the production of 15-ktpa decarbonised growth,” said Ms. Emilie
lyser near the Zeeland (Netherlands) of green hydrogen for the TotalEner- Mouren-Renouard, member of the
refinery. This project will enable the gies platform in Antwerp. Under this Air Liquide Executive Committee, in
production of up to 30-ktpa of green agreement, TotalEnergies will supply charge of Europe operations. In order
hydrogen, most of which will be deli- the renewable electrons produced by to fully decarbonise the hydrogen used
vered to Zeeland’s platform. The electro- the OranjeWind project to Air Liquide in its European refineries, TotalEnergies
lyser will be commissioned in 2029 and to be transformed into green hydrogen. has already contracted over 170-ktpa
will cut the site’s CO emissions by up The project is expected to be operational of green hydrogen at: La Mède, Grand-
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to 300-ktpa. This project represents a by the end of 2027 and will reduce puits and Normandy in France, Leuna
global investment of around €600-mn CO emissions at the Antwerp site by in Germany and its refineries in
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for both partners and has made requests up to 150-ktpa. Belgium and the Netherlands.
BASF plans new alcoholates plant in Germany

BASF is planning to build a new biodiesel and for pharmaceutical and an investment of “a mid-double-digit
alcoholates plant at its site in Ludwig- agricultural applications. million-euro amount” will replace the
shafen, Germany. The plant will pro- existing production facility in Ludwig-
duce sodium methylate and potassium Utilising state-of-the-art techno- shafen and is expected to start up in
methylate, used for the production of logy, the new plant being set up with the second half of 2027.

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