Enabling customer decarbonisation in support of Germany’s energy transition goals
The objective of the agreement is to implement international supply chains for clean hydrogen. This includes sourcing of ammonia, transportation by ship, and delivery to floating import terminals where the ammonia is cracked into hydrogen for delivery to SEFE customers through the German hydrogen core grid. The cooperation will also identify possible locations for floating ammonia-to-hydrogen terminals along Germany’s Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts, as well as other potential locations in Europe.
SEFE will manage both the upstream supply portfolio and the downstream part of the supply chain, including the global sourcing of clean molecules and the aggregation of hydrogen demand in Germany and Europe. SEFE is already investing in the German hydrogen core grid through its subsidiary GASCADE.
Höegh Evi will provide the midstream infrastructure to connect the joint projects and thereby Germany with international hydrogen markets including the transportation of ammonia by ship and the floating import terminal infrastructure. The terminals will provide a supply of dispatchable and baseload-ready clean hydrogen for industrial customers by storing the ammonia at the terminal and using Höegh Evi’s ammonia-to-hydrogen cracker, the world’s only floating solution to convert ammonia to hydrogen at an industrial scale.
Creating clean hydrogen supply chains from sourcing to customer delivery
Hamead Ahrary, CSO of SEFE highlights: “In our relentless quest to provide our customers with competitive clean hydrogen, we are pleased to be partnering with Höegh Evi to establish international supply chains. With Höegh Evi’s pioneering technology in the field of floating import terminals including the cracking of ammonia to hydrogen within the terminal and the deep customer understanding we have gained over the last decades, we have the best conditions to develop international clean hydrogen supply chains to make the energy transition a reality.”
Erik Nyheim, CEO of Höegh Evi says: “Establishing global supply chains for hydrogen is a major step towards advancing the energy transition in Germany and Europe. SEFE is leading the way by investing in the German hydrogen core grid and building-up global and local partnerships for the production, sourcing and supply of cost-competitive clean hydrogen for Germany and Europe. Höegh Evi is proud to contribute to this endeavor with its world-leading expertise in floating infrastructure and unique hydrogen terminal solutions. In Germany and across Europe, we are developing infrastructure that creates new pathways to decarbonisation via global market corridors for clean hydrogen.”
