Woodside Energy, Japan Suiso Energy and The Kansai Electric Power Co (Kepco) are to explore developing a liquid hydrogen supply chain between Australia and Japan.
Liquid hydrogen produced at Woodside’s proposed H2Perth project in Western Australia would be shipped in carriers to receiving terminals in Japan.
The facility, in the Rockingham and Kwinana Industrial Zones in Perth, is intended to produce liquid hydrogen via natural gas reforming, with the intention of achieving net zero Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from the start of operations.
This would be achieved through carbon capture and storage (CCS) and using carbon credits as offsets.
gasworld reported two years ago that Woodside and Kepco were looking into a establishing a CCS value chain.
The firms are not the only ones seeking to capitalise on strong trade links between the two nations, which totalled around A$115bn ($76bn) last year.
Australia’s Hazer Group is also to develop a clean hydrogen and graphite project in Nagoya, Japan, using methane pyrolysis, it was announced in June.
Inpex Corporation signed an agreement with Chubu Electric Power Co through subsidiary Inpex Browse E&P in October last year, to assess capturing carbon dioxide in Japan and transporting it from the port of Nagoya to Australia for storage.
AloJapan.com