15 March 2021
QEM, the developer of the Julia Creek shale oil and vanadium project in northern Queensland, says it will explore the possibility of making its own renewable hydrogen, which it would then use to process raw oil.
It’s an unusual use of green hydrogen, a carbon-free, renewably-generated fuel normally associated with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and so tackle climate change.
In this case, though, it would be supporting the production of a carbon-heavy fossil fuel, an irony similar to using captured Co2 to increase production from depleted oil wells.
QEM said in a statement it had begun a study into the possibility of building its own solar generation capacity, and using that to turn water into hydrogen using electrolysis.
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