Basic Hydrogen Strategy News Today

Energy services company Expro Group Holdings N.V has secured a carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) contract for what is believed to be Japan’s first clean hydrogen production demonstration.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Toyo Engineering Corp, JGC Corp and Chiyoda Corp have signed jv agreement for a liquefied hydrogen supply chain in development

Industrial gases major Air Liquide will work alongside Japan’s leading energy company ENEOS Corporation (ENEOS) to accelerate the development of low-carbon hydrogen in Japan and advance the energy transition, having signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

Japan Suiso Energy (JSE), and shipping companies, K Line, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), NYK, are forming a joint venture to develop hydrogen carriers.

The target hydrogen supply cost is approximately JPY30 /Nm3 in 2030 and JPY20 /Nm3 in 2050 at the point of arrival in Japan

Japanese shipping companies, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK)…

JSE, K Line, MOL and NYK have joined JSE Ocean, with JSE remaining the majority shareholder with 50.2% of the stock, whilst the other companies hold 16.6% each.

As the government moves to put its updated hydrogen strategy into practice, more and more Japanese companies are entering the industry.

Clean energy company Enapter has secured an order for 101 AEM electrolysers from Japanese fuel cell company Enoah.

As a trailblazer in hydrogen diplomacy, Japan is seeking to develop a new pattern of energy interdependence with its longstanding partners, the Gulf Arab states — countries that are promising production bases for and exporters of green hydrogen and ammonia, and whose leaders have come to regard the development of clean hydrogen as an attractive way to diversify their economies.