H2H Saltend The first step to a Zero Carbon Humber The UK’s ambitious climate targets deserve equally ambitious solutions that build on UK strengths. This project represents a bold but practical first step towards delivering the world’s first net zero industrial cluster by 2040. This is an unparalleled project, location and partnership that can play a leading role in the UK’s journey to net zero by 2050, renew the UK’s largest industrial cluster, and unlock technology that will put the UK at the forefront of a global hydrogen economy.

Irene Rummelhoff Executive Vice President, Marketing, Midstream & Processing (MMP) Equinor

This project forms part of the Zero Carbon Humber vision to build the world’s first zero carbon industrial cluster and decarbonise the North of England. www.zerocarbonhumber.co.uk 1 The Humber industrial cluster 4 The reward: opportunities for The Humber represents the greatest opportunity for a global trade Putting the Humber at decarbonised industrial hub and a hydrogen economy in The H2H Saltend project will open up new export the UK. Deploying low carbon hydrogen infrastructure opportunities for hydrogen and low carbon chemicals. in the region will demonstrate UK leadership in the Race The Humber’s location provides easy access to world the heart of the UK’s low to Zero. As the UK’s largest industrial cluster by size, markets via the and the Port of . emissions and geography, it offers significant potential, This offers the UK the opportunity to become a world and is close to the UK’s most extensive geological CO 2 leader in the trade and export of low carbon products storage in the Southern North Sea. into a global marketplace, and share expertise built carbon future and a global up in the region. 2 The kick-starter: the H2H Saltend hydrogen economy. project 5 The advantage: practical experience As part of the Zero Carbon Humber ambition, the in low carbon Hydrogen to Humber Saltend (H2H Saltend) project is a Equinor is a leader in low carbon technologies and has fitting way to launch the decarbonisation of the region. the necessary experience and expertise to deliver the Anchored at Saltend Chemicals Park, a cluster of H2H Saltend project. Equinor has been investing in low world-class chemicals and businesses, carbon energy solutions for more than 20 years, and Why the Humber? H2H Saltend is one of the H2H Saltend will facilitate the deployment of owns and operates the only two commercial Carbon infrastructure for blue hydrogen and CO emissions 2 Capture and Storage (CCS) projects in Europe. Equinor The Humber region is rich in industrial first of its kind in the UK. at the heart of the Humber industrial cluster. supplies to the UK with one of the lowest expertise and diversity at a scale that carbon footprints in the industry and is building the is unrivalled anywhere else in the UK. world’s largest offshore wind farm in the UK at H2H Saltend will build upon the Humber’s The first demonstrator of 3 The switch: growing hydrogen across Dogger Bank with SSE. unique qualities and its geography to st blue hydrogen at scale to the Humber deploy and grow the UK’s first low carbon switch existing power and infrastructure for hydrogen and carbon 1 industry to low carbon fuel. Blue hydrogen production can be scaled up to allow 6 The vision: a Zero Carbon Humber timely fuel switching by users across the Humber. dioxide (CO2) emissions. It can form the basis for a developed hydrogen market, The Humber is united in its ambition to decarbonise and The first at-scale production including for growing levels of green hydrogen, and in the committed to leading the way to a net zero and hydrogen st of low carbon chemicals. longer run help start a global trade of hydrogen. Critical future. Home to a huge variety of industries and world- Why hydrogen? 1 industries across the region will be able to connect into leading businesses, the region represents a diverse the hydrogen and CO2 infrastructure as it grows, and partnership coming together to deliver the world’s first Switching from fossil fuels to low carbon either fuel switch or capture their emissions. decarbonised industrial cluster and a Zero Carbon Humber. H₂ hydrogen is pivotal in launching the UK on The UK’s first low carbon its way to net zero by 2050. Hydrogen st infrastructure for hydrogen provides a practical, scalable solution to and CO emissions. Growing impact at every step 2 decarbonise existing industries that 1 currently depend on fossil fuels. An H2H Saltend project timeline established hydrogen economy in the Humber is well-positioned to support the Local results Regional impact UK’s future decarbonisation, with endless possibilities to adapt.

Why Equinor? Experience matters. Equinor has over 20 years’ experience in safely storing carbon emissions and producing hydrogen from natural gas. Equinor has supplied energy 2021–2023 2024–2026 2026–2027 2027–2028 2027–2029 2030–2035 to the UK for over 35 years and is proud Project matured Engineering and H2H Saltend Expansion across Design and Triton Power to be part of the Zero Carbon Humber to final investment build of H2H Saltend producing low carbon the Humber with development converted to alliance that seeks to make the region the decision through anchor project hydrogen for use as hydrogen supplies of additional 100% hydrogen. UK’s first net zero industrial cluster. private and and low carbon fuel at Triton Power providing blending production plants public support. infrastructure. and Saltend optionality to at Saltend to Saltend Chemicals Chemicals Park. facilities including expand hydrogen Park reaches Clean production. net zero carbon Low carbon chemicals Power Hub. emissions. production underway.

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taking captured CO2 and storing it safely offshore.

04 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 05 As specified in the Paris Agreement, The time to act is now. In its substantial The time to act is now. 10 million we must limit the rise of global average report, Net Zero: The UK’s contribution to temperatures to well below 2°C in order stopping global warming, The Committee tonnes to limit the harmful effects of global on Climate Change stressed the need The UK must grow its economy while The UK Committee on warming. To do this, we must reduce the to replace fossil fuels with cleaner Climate Change has volume of greenhouse gases that are alternatives. At-scale production of low delivering on its net zero ambition. recommended that two released into the atmosphere. carbon hydrogen is needed by 2030 industrial clusters should capture at least 10 million alongside Carbon Capture and Storage tonnes per year of CO CO emissions are one of the key (CCS) infrastructure in order to achieve A high value, low carbon recovery is 2 2 by 2030, and at least one contributors to global warming. Some of the UK’s 2050 net zero target. There is of them should involve the biggest emitters are energy-intensive now a race against time to deploy low the answer. substantial production of industrial clusters. The Humber is the carbon infrastructure and utilise the low carbon hydrogen. The Humber represents the UK’s largest industrial cluster and alone most effective technologies to make UK’s best opportunity to emits over one third of the emissions from the greatest reduction in CO2 emissions. develop the world’s first the UK’s six largest industrial clusters. hydrogen economy. Decarbonising industrial clusters In addition to climate change

Net Zero: The UK’s contribution to significantly reduces emissions while commitments, countries are prioritising stopping global warming protecting existing jobs, creating new cleaner, sustainable economic growth ones and positioning the UK to trade in after the devastating impact of the the growing green products market. global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Local economies and industrial hubs across the UK have been affected. A low carbon economic recovery is needed to drive growth while staying on track to Countdown achieve climate targets.

The challenge The solution to net zero Delivering a low carbon A switch to hydrogen recovery An ambitious target requires ambitious Blue hydrogen is low but real-world solutions. Decarbonising The UK government has set an ambitious carbon hydrogen industrial clusters can be delivered produced from natural target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through at-scale hydrogen production, gas with the associated to net zero by 2050. One of the key focus CO captured and safely enabling fuel switching from unabated 2 areas for policy is the decarbonisation of stored. Green hydrogen fossil fuels to low carbon hydrogen. This industrial clusters and their significant is low carbon hydrogen journey is achievable through a blue single-source emitters. produced by electrolysis hydrogen expansion strategy to create of water using a hydrogen market, facilitating the entry of renewable electricity. The UK's Industrial Decarbonisation growing amounts of green hydrogen over Challenge aims to develop and deploy low time. This is exactly what the Hydrogen to carbon technologies in order to accelerate Humber concept will achieve, with H2H the cost-effective decarbonisation of Saltend acting as the kick-starter project industry. By the mid-2020s, low carbon Fuel to decarbonise the entire industrial cluster. infrastructure will be deployed at scale, switch boosting the competitiveness of key Fuel switching is the industrial regions. process of changing current fuel sources to greener alternatives. For example, a that burns natural gas can be fuel-switched in whole or in part to hydrogen, lowering its carbon footprint.

06 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 07 The Humber represents a unique opportunity to launch the world’s first 1. hydrogen economy in the UK. The Humber industrial cluster

08 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 09 The Humber region is the UK’s The ideal location to unlock impact The Humber is well-positioned for the The Humber’s close proximity to most effective deployment of hydrogen Endurance would minimise cost, time biggest industrial economy, and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to build and disruption during the infrastructure. It is the closest cluster to deployment of the required low carbon employing 55,000 people in the the Endurance aquifer, a large potential infrastructure. It therefore presents a carbon storage site in the Southern technically credible opportunity 1 North Sea. Endurance is the most well- to develop a low carbon industrial manufacturing sector alone. understood geological store thanks to cluster by 2030. This can then expand extensive development work undertaken to become a net zero cluster by 2040 by industry experts. with a supply chain of credible projects and a long-term CO storage strategy. The UK’s largest The UK’s biggest 2 CO₂ In Equinor’s opinion, Endurance represents industrial cluster industrial economy one of the best geological features The impact of decarbonising the Humber considered in the UK Continental Shelf will be felt across the country. Industries As the UK’s largest industrial cluster in The Humber region is also hugely important The Humber is the closest industrial cluster to to date. Its development is very well within and beyond the Humber will be able terms of geography, energy use and to the UK economy. It contributes £18 Endurance, the most matured with supporting validation of to share low carbon infrastructure which emissions, the Humber presents a unique billion each year to UK Gross Value well-understood geological seismic data giving high confidence in will have the ability to quickly scale opportunity to decarbonise industry Added. A quarter of this comes from the storage site for CO 2 the ability of the store to deliver large capacity, becoming rapidly cost-effective. at scale. Saltend Chemicals Park, located manufacturing industry, which employs emissions in the Southern scale, long term safe storage of CO . to the east of Hull, has emissions 55,000 people.2 North Sea. 2 comparable to the Teesside or the Merseyside industrial cluster. Hence, It has been estimated that fuel switching to the Humber industrial cluster has the hydrogen could create 43,000 new jobs in 43,000 greatest potential to contribute the the UK across just five energy-intensive largest reduction in CO2 emissions and sectors, and this could increase by a Fuel switching to hydrogen help the UK reach net zero. further 175,000 with the UK building a could create 43,000 jobs world-leading low carbon economy. Most across just five energy- of this growth is likely to be concentrated Key locations in the Humber industrial cluster intensive sectors in the UK. around the Humber and other industrial Hy-Impact Series Study 1: Hydrogen for 3 economic growth clusters.

Carbon taxation is another economic reason to prioritise the development and deployment of low carbon technologies and infrastructure. It is estimated that by 2040, firms in the region could save up to £2.9 billion per annum by capturing 1 4 5 and storing rather than releasing their 4 CO2 emissions.

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1, 2, 4 – Zero Carbon Humber, Capture for Growth Report 3 – Hy-Impact Series Study 1: Hydrogen for economic growth

10 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 11 At the heart of UK industry Largest industrial The Humber region is home to large and Equinor is committed to investment in the clusters by emissions diverse industries. It has a history of Humber region and has a track record of BEIS, Industrial Clusters Mission infographic welcoming and supporting ambitious working in partnership with world-class industrial, low carbon and renewable companies on world-changing projects. energy projects. The Humber will soon Through the Zero Carbon Humber alliance, receive electricity from Dogger Bank, the Equinor is partnering with leading 1 The Humber 12.4MtCO 12% world’s largest offshore wind farm, and businesses in the region to deliver 2 The chemicals and refining already does so from Europe’s largest cutting-edge technologies to decarbonise 2 South Wales 55,000 jobs sector in the Humber renewable energy project at Drax. the Humber industrial cluster. 8.2MtCO industrial cluster account 2 Decarbonising the Humber for 12% of total employment The large biofuel potential at the Vivergo If H2H Saltend is delivered with private and in the UK chemicals sector, industrial cluster will protect Fuels plant also demonstrates the public support, the Zero Carbon Humber 3 Grangemouth second only to North-West 4.3MtCO2 55,000 jobs in the region. England. Humber’s commitment to investing in partners will collaborate to develop the sustainable fuel for the future. This shared Humber into the UK’s, and the world’s, first Zero Carbon Humber, Capture for Growth Report Zero Carbon Humber, Capture for 4 Teesside Growth Report vision provides an opportunity for low net zero industrial cluster. 3.1MtCO carbon infrastructure to be shared 2 between industries, increasing its reach and cost-effectiveness. 5 Merseyside 2.6MtCO 3 2 6 Southampton 3 2.6MtCO 2 2 4 4 5 6 1 . 5 37%

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Net zero starts here As the largest industrial cluster, the These large industries have the ambition

Humber emits more CO2 than any other and scale to take advantage of multiple UK industrial cluster: one and a half times low carbon technologies. These include more than the second largest cluster. By at-scale fuel switching, bio-energy delivering clean hydrogen and enabling with CCS, and post-combustion low carbon infrastructure, this project will capture methods. kick-start the Humber’s decarbonisation process, taking an important step in the The Humber industrial cluster has the UK's journey to net zero. potential to reach net zero by 2040 by showcasing a full range of decarbonisation The heavy concentration and variety of technologies. This would put a global industries in the Humber represents a spotlight on the UK and generate jobs by significant decarbonisation proposition. leading a new worldwide market.

12 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 13 Saltend Chemicals Park is the kick-starter 2. for the hydrogen revolution in the UK. The kick-starter The H2H Saltend project H₂

Fuel-switching industry Low carbon chemicals Decarbonising and power for export and domestic heat maritime fuel-switch

14 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 15 Companies at Saltend Chemicals Park A unique location Saltend Chemicals Park is in a unique location, close to potential carbon storage facilities in the Southern North Sea and adjacent to the Port of Hull, one of the busiest ports in the country. This px provides easy access to global markets for the export of low carbon products and potential

imports of CO2 for storage. Foundations for success Saltend Chemicals Park is home to an ideal combination of power and industry to deliver cost-effective decarbonisation. The integrated nature of the existing infrastructure means that, by switching fuel from natural gas to low carbon Saltend Chemicals Park, a cluster of hydrogen, multiple end-users can easily achieve decarbonisation by utilising shared low carbon world-class chemicals and renewable infrastructure. energy businesses, is at the heart of Saltend Chemicals Park produces millions of tonnes of petrochemicals every year which are essential for everyday items from clothing to paint and the UK’s Energy Estuary. pharmaceuticals to packaging. Decarbonising Saltend Chemicals will, by association, decarbonise the chemicals produced there and the products made from those chemicals. This will kick-start the world’s first production of low carbon chemicals It is in an ideal position to switch from and a competitive low carbon export economy.

fossil fuels to low carbon hydrogen. H2H Saltend will see CO2 emissions reductions from the outset. 900 thousand tonnes of CO2 emissions can be saved each year in the first phase of H2H Saltend. This will lead the way for the Park to achieve net zero by 2035 – a UK first.

25km Saltend Chemicals Park is 25km from Easington, the planned access point to carbon storage facilities in the Southern North Sea.

Equinor H2H Saltend 17 Combining technologies to create How the Triton power impact of Current carbon an integrated low carbon solution. H2H Saltend emissions scales over time 3.5 million tonnes of CO per year. 1 2 2 Initial stage Hydrogen produced CO captured 2 2026–2027 at scale to replace and stored in safe Blue hydrogen blended natural gas. offshore sites. at 30% with natural gas to power MHPS turbines at Triton Power’s power plant. Triton power Saltend H2H Saltend captures Chemicals up to 1.4 million tonnes Park of CO2 in its first year of operation. Endurance Easington CO2 transport and storage infrastructure in use.

Other industrial This world-leading project requires serious The CO by-product from hydrogen customers are switched Concept shown is 2 to 100% hydrogen. commitment in low carbon infrastructure production will be captured, transported illustrative only CO 1110kt 1110kt ₂ anchored in the Humber. To switch Triton and stored deep under the seabed in Low carbon chemicals Power’s gas-fired power plant from fossil safe, natural offshore storage facilities. are produced for export or as maritime fuel. ₂ 58kt fuels to hydrogen, an Auto Thermal Endurance is one of the best understood CO Reformer (ATR) of 600MW or more will options in the UK for CO storage. A 25km H₂ 2 ₂ Captured need to be constructed to produce blue onshore pipeline will be constructed CO ₂ hydrogen. This will initially be blended at through open farmland to transport CO

2030 Hydrogen from 2520kt 30% (or higher) with natural gas in the CO2 from Saltend Chemicals Park to 1412kt to storage H2H Saltend will enable H2H Saltend will have ATR Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) the proposed landfall at Easington. Low carbon fuels and chemicals flexible, low carbon turbines at the power plant. Switching at captured up to 8.25 power generation for million tonnes of CO . least 30% of the natural gas to hydrogen Saltend Chemicals Park benefits from 2 Saltend Chemicals Park. (bio) 302kt will significantly reduce the emissions easy access to the Humber’s deepwater 2035 associated with power and steam shipping channel. This has potential for low

production. carbon chemicals produced at Saltend to Saltend Chemicals Triton be exported in the global market. Park to reach net zero The interconnected nature of the carbon emissions. ₂ industries at Saltend Chemicals Park Low carbon chemicals can also be used as Captured present a unique opportunity for world- maritime fuel, helping to reduce shipping 2040 CO leading decarbonisation across the site emissions. This supports the International The Humber will Vivergo by maximising use of shared infrastructure Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) target to be the UK’s first Low carbon chemicals/ to create cost-effective and innovative halve global shipping emissions by 2050. decarbonised fuels storage

industrial cluster.Green Ammonia export emissions reduction solutions. The potential for maritime fuel switching Projected CO2 could also make the Port of Hull the first in emissions after initial stage 2050 In addition, other industrial users at the world to offer low carbon refuelling. From the outset, H2H Saltend Chemicals Park will also be able to UK’s target to reach Methanol import (BP) N Saltend can reduce CO2 fuel switch from natural gas to hydrogen. net zero carbon 2.6 This includes the flexibility to blend into the emissions. million tonnes emissions and unlock the of CO per year. Hull gas network that is located directly IMO’s target to halve 2 hydrogen economy. These adjacent to the site. Hence H2H Saltend global shipping has the ability to support the emissions. significant benefits will be decarbonisation of domestic heat as delivered through private well as power and industry. and public collaboration.

18 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 19 The technology exists today to produce 3. low carbon hydrogen at scale, whilst collecting CO2 and safely storing it deep under the seabed. The switch Growing hydrogen across the Humber

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20 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 21 Blue hydrogen is widely regarded Future-proof investment Keeping pace with demand H2H Saltend will help the UK meet its At-scale fuel switching to blue hydrogen as the most cost-effective means energy needs while moving to net zero. is the most effective way to significantly It can also flex to align with future reduce CO2 emissions as soon as government priorities and policy. possible. It is a low risk opportunity for of producing low carbon hydrogen decarbonisation that can adapt with future Once the infrastructure has been increases in sustainable energy sources. established, there are a number of routes at scale. open to roll out low carbon hydrogen In the interim between now and a fully across different sectors including heat, sustainable future, it is important to take power, industry and transport, in line significant and impactful steps to reduce with government policy. Investing in H2H emissions. Fuel switching to blue hydrogen Saltend now future-proofs the region by is the most viable technical solution establishing two infrastructure systems in available, and is a pathway that links the one: a hydrogen transmission system and fuel source that dominates today to a a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) more sustainable future. system linking to CO storage in the How blue 2 Southern North Sea. The hydrogen transmission system will, over time, transport both blue and green hydrogen hydrogen works to customers across the region.

Hydrogen is the ultimate fuel of the future. Due to the readily available supplies of Renewable power continues to grow but most of the UK’s energy It is the most abundant molecule in the natural gas to the UK, and a supply chain universe, but on Earth free hydrogen that largely already exists, blue hydrogen system still relies on oil and natural gas. For the UK to reach its climate does not exist in significant quantities, is well-placed to provide cost-effective targets, these fuels must be replaced with low carbon alternatives, which is why it must be produced from hydrogen at scale. starting with blue hydrogen and progressing to higher levels of green alternative sources. With increasing levels of electrification and hydrogen. Fuel switching is the stepping stone to a fully sustainable Blue hydrogen is produced at scale by renewables, green hydrogen is expected energy system. splitting natural gas into hydrogen and to play a larger role over longer timescales,

CO2. The hydrogen is then used as fuel first supplementing and then replacing for power and industry customers and blue hydrogen.

the CO2 by-product is captured and safely stored. The infrastructure deployed as part of the H2H Saltend project will allow a Projected use of H2H Saltend is designed to capture at seamless shift to blue and green hydrogen

least 95% of the CO2 by-product from the in the future. hydrogen across the production of blue hydrogen, significantly UK economy by 2050 lowering the carbon footprint of power and industry customers that fuel-switch. The Committee on Climate Change predicts that by in 2050, production of blue hydrogen will be four times that of green hydrogen. ₂ Analysis by Aurora Energy Together, blue and green H Research sets out that a hydrogen will meet the projected % energy demands of industry, heat hydrogen pathway utilising the transport and shipping, whilst UK's comparative advantage lowering the carbon footprint in blue hydrogen and CCS could of the UK. make the UK a leader in hydrogen Net Zero: The UK’s contribution to stopping global warming production costs until merchant green hydrogen becomes competitive in 15–20 years. 95At least 95% efficiency in capturing CO when producing blue hydrogen. 2 Aurora Energy Research, Hydrogen for a Net Zero GB: an integrated energy market perspective

22 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 23 H2H Saltend can be expanded to take Eventually this system could allow CO2 to

There is significant potential to rapidly Saltend Chemicals Park to net zero CO2 be imported by ship from other industrial

emissions by 2035, paving the way for clusters lacking access to CO2 storage expand the low carbon revolution that the Humber to become the world’s first facilities. H2H Saltend could decarbonised industrial cluster by 2040. provide low carbon The hydrogen produced at Saltend starts at Saltend Chemicals Park. chemicals to act as Low carbon chemicals produced at Chemicals Park can be utilised for cross- marine fuels, making Saltend Chemicals Park can provide sector decarbonisation of industry, power, the Port of Hull one competitive low carbon products for transport and heat. Future expansion of of the first in the world to offer low export, demonstrating cleaner growth the project could see it produce enough carbon maritime in the region. blue hydrogen to start the decarbonisation refuelling. of domestic heat in the north of England.

The CO2 transport and storage This exciting potential is laid out in the H21 infrastructure will be designed to expand North of England report.1 across the Humber region, lowering the threshold for all Humber industries to There is also the potential to incorporate connect. This will rapidly reduce emissions green hydrogen production, making use of Building in the Humber and drive down costs increasing supplies of renewable energy associated with the CO storage. from offshore wind in the Humber. momentum 2

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24 Equinor H2H Saltend Paull Rd Equinor H2H Saltend 25 Creating a wider impact After the initial infrastructure is The power stations at SSE's Keadby Once in place, the low carbon There are many potential avenues to be established, hydrogen production Clean Power Hub, including Europe's most infrastructure could also be scaled up to explored for extending the low carbon capacity can be increased across the efficient gas fuelled power station, are connect to the metropolitan areas of economy beyond Saltend Chemicals Park Humber to large-scale, technology-ready just one example of potential hydrogen Leeds, York and Bradford, further west to and the Humber. The H2H Saltend project customers. A complete fuel switch to users. Such access to hydrogen for Manchester and Liverpool and north to will facilitate the export of the world’s hydrogen could mean that the Humber fuel switching across industries in the the Teesside industrial cluster as set out in first low carbon chemicals, giving the requires over 13 terawatt-hours of low Humber will allow sustainable and cost- the H21 North of England report. This will region the edge in competitive, low carbon hydrogen for industry and 165 effective decarbonisation over time.2 create a network of low carbon hydrogen carbon products. terawatt-hours for power by 2030. for industry, power and domestic heat. There is great potential to roll out low carbon hydrogen right across the north of England, making H2H Saltend the hydrogen kick-starter for the UK.3 1 If the UK develops a world-leading H2H Saltend enables the hydrogen economy, the expansion of low decarbonisation of industry Development of green carbon infrastructure could generate hydrogen production at and power across the Humber Saltend Chemicals Park over 200,000 jobs and add £16 billion through electrolysis. region and can expand further each year to the UK’s economy.1 to deliver low carbon energy in heat and transport too.

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With the private sector working together with government, Transmission of hydrogen produced at Saltend will provide the option H2H Saltend has the potential for decarbonisation at SSE Keadby Clean Power Hub. to deliver meaningful impact to the region, the UK, and the

1, 2 – Hy-Impact Series: A summary of four wider world. studies assessing the role of hydrogen in the UK net-zero transition Hydrogen available to support Expansion of hydrogen production 3 – H21 North of England report decarbonisation of British Steel, one of capacity at Saltend (fuel switch at only two steelworks in the UK. Triton to 100% hydrogen). 26 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 27 Building the value chain With H2H Saltend as the kick-starter for By anchoring the low carbon infrastructure From Saltend, Low carbon infrastructure will be extended from Saltend, low carbon infrastructure, hydrogen at Saltend Chemicals Park, it can be pipelines can expand across the Humber, extended in all directions to allow fuel providing the flexibility for the Humber industrial cluster to meet future transporting hydrogen for use by multiple switching for many customers. The cleaner energy targets in line with government policy as it develops. industry and power customers. As demand transmission of hydrogen produced at increases, more ATRs can be built around Saltend will offer the potential for Saltend and at appropriate industrial decarbonisation at SSE Keadby Clean locations across the Humber, for example Power Hub. Extending pipelines to this part The world’s first at-scale low carbon chemicals Equinor’s ambition is to expand the infrastructure in the Immingham area. of the Humber would give other customers production at the H2H Saltend project will put at Saltend five-fold, enough for 3 gigawatts of in the area the option to connect in and the UK at the forefront of the global market in blue and green hydrogen by 2030. fuel switch. low carbon products, providing significant export potential. % Low carbon infrastructure at Saltend Chemicals Park supplies low carbon hydrogen for energy

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The UK could need up to 480 terawatt- 60 potential industrial and power 45hours of hydrogen by 2050, approximately 60customers have been identified that 45% of total energy demand. can switch to low carbon hydrogen in the and Humber region. Aurora Energy Research, Hydrogen for a Net Zero GB: an integrated energy market perspective

Overview of key results for the potential demand for hydrogen in the Yorkshire and Humber region

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28 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 29 The H2H Saltend Project will launch a new low carbon hydrogen economy 4. with global potential. The reward Global trade opportunities

30 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 31 In addition to generating low carbon Creating a global hydrogen economy energy in the Humber, hydrogen The successes at Saltend Chemicals Park can be replicated in industrial clusters across the world. First-movers will be produced in the UK can be exported best placed to reap the rewards and shape global market developments. to new markets across the world. This provides an ideal opportunity for the UK and the Humber to lead the way in hydrogen’s global future. Equinor is working with the maritime industry to develop the world’s first supply vessel to run on zero-emission ammonia.

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Leading a new In addition to low carbon Northern Lights Project hydrogen and low carbon chemicals trade, global economy H2H Saltend presents the opportunity for the

Humber to import CO2 via ship to support other Creating trade in low UK hydrogen international hydrogen carbon products and economy and Carbon Capture carbon management Anchoring low carbon hydrogen and Storage projects infrastructure at Saltend Chemicals Park is Once Triton Power has completed its the first step to a UK hydrogen economy. in Northern Europe. Port of Rotterdam partial switch to hydrogen, all the power Low carbon hydrogen production can CCUS back bone 56% of all heat could be and steam it produces and supplies to project ‘PORTHOS’ generated by hydrogen, be established in the Humber and then Saltend Chemicals Park will be lower as outlined in the H21 transported across the region. Hydrogen carbon. All chemicals produced at Saltend North of England report. has great potential to be used for H-vision blue will therefore have a reduced carbon hydrogen project H21 North of England report domestic transport and heat, converting footprint, increasing their competitiveness Rotterdam everyday energy usage to cleaner, low H2morrow project, in an increasingly carbon constrained carbon energy. The H21 North of England North Rhine-Westphalia world. The creation of a global market of report outlines the potential to expand low carbon products, in addition to the production in step with growing hydrogen knowledge and expertise of workers in the demands from homes, businesses, region, will put the Humber at the forefront power and transport across the UK. of a global hydrogen economy.

An additional trade opportunity is to ₂ increase the utilisation of Carbon Capture CO and Storage (CCS) infrastructure by importing CO from other regions. There is Northern Lights, an 2 innovative new project in potential for CO2 to be imported by ship, Norway led by Equinor, with Saltend Chemicals Park acting as a will be the world’s first receiving terminal, then transported by CO storage facility that 2 pipeline and safely stored below the takes shipping imports. Southern North Sea. This allows other H21 North This new commercial CO2 of England trade can be replicated industrial clusters, in the UK and elsewhere, in the Humber, boosting access to these carbon storage facilities, Humber growth in the region. further increasing the cost-effectiveness Industrial Port of Cluster Zeebrugge of the low carbon infrastructure.

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Equinor is a leader in low carbon technologies. Working alongside our 5. partners and peers in industry, we are dedicated to creating real change. The advantage Practical experience in low carbon

34 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 35 Equinor is an experienced low Tried and tested While some of these technologies are new to the Humber and the UK, Equinor has carbon operator and a values-driven decades of experience in producing hydrogen and developing CCS, and has organisation committed to turning been involved in more than 40 projects worldwide. Deploying these technologies in the Humber will launch it and the UK into a natural resources into energy for new global marketplace where it can lead the world in offering low carbon products. people and progress for society. 40Equinor is involved in over 40 CCS projects around the world. Shaping the future CCS of energy The Sleipner field in the North Sea

Since 1996, the Sleipner field has safely captured and stored

over 1 million tonnes of CO2 Forward-thinking and 20 years of expertise per year. Operated by Equinor and partners, it is the world’s values-driven Although H2H Saltend is the first of its kind first offshore CCS plant. in the UK, hydrogen production and Carbon Equinor is committed to investing in low Capture and Storage (CCS) technology carbon energy for now and the future. have been successfully developed in With an open and collaborative approach, Norway for over 20 years. To date, working alongside industry peers, Equinor has safely captured and stored CCS Equinor delivers long-term value to the over 23 million tonnes of CO as part of communities in which it operates. Equinor 2 multiple projects. is proud to collaborate with industry To date, we have safely leaders to deliver cleaner growth within captured and stored The Northern Lights project, Equinor’s the Humber region, while seriously over 23 million tonnes recent venture with Shell and Total, has of CO . considering the global potential and 2 recently announced a final investment environmental impact of its operations. decision. This project is an important milestone in developing a full-scale CO Equinor is the UK’s leading energy 2 handling chain in Norway and will be the Snøhvit natural gas field provider. Its energy supplies from Norway first CO storage facility able to store CO meet more than one quarter of the UK’s 2 2 from multiple industries and countries. This Snøhvit is the first major demand for natural gas and around one is a ground-breaking project that brings development on the Norwegian fifth of its demand for oil, both produced viable commercial CO storage a step continental shelf with no surface with one of the lowest carbon footprints in 2 closer to realisation and could be replicated installations. Sub-sea production the industry. in the Humber. facilities supply natural gas to land for liquefaction and CO It is also investing billions in crucial energy 2 Equinor is confident it can apply its expertise is piped back for re-injection infrastructure. These include the Mariner from these projects to the Humber, into a natural reservoir. We operate in over 30 oil field (one of the largest and most countries in the world supporting the Zero Carbon Humber digitally advanced offshore investments and have been an ambition to become the UK’s and the n the UK over the last decade), Hywind energy partner of the world’s first decarbonised industrial cluster. UK for over 35 years. Scotland (the world’s first floating offshore wind farm) and Dogger Bank (the world’s largest offshore wind farm and starting generation in 2023).

36 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 37 A region rich in industrial expertise and a project of unrivalled scale, coming 6. together to deliver the first net zero industrial cluster. The vision A Zero Carbon Humber

38 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 39 As part of the Zero Carbon Humber alliance, This is an unparalleled H2H Saltend brings together partners committed to decarbonising the UK chemicals sector and the opportunity to lower the Humber industrial cluster. carbon footprint of industry across the Humber and

accelerate the UK towards px its net zero ambitions.

H2H Saltend will be the first of its kind in the UK

Working together A new hydrogen H2H Saltend will be delivered by world- powerhouse class companies working together to In order to decarbonise the Humber decarbonise the UK’s largest industrial 1 2 3 industrial cluster, low carbon infrastructure cluster, making it the first net zero The UK’s first low carbon The UK’s first at-scale low The UK’s first large scale must be deployed efficiently and effectively. industrial cluster in the world. Equinor is infrastructure for carbon blue hydrogen low carbon chemical Anchoring the decarbonisation of the committed to working alongside its peers hydrogen and carbon production for existing power production. Humber region at Saltend Chemicals Park in industry to develop and deploy the low emissions. and industry. allows blue hydrogen to be produced carbon technology and infrastructure at scale and delivered to industry for needed to make this possible. Anchoring H2H Saltend will deliver two Blue hydrogen produced at The low carbon chemicals use as fuel. By converting Triton Power’s this technology at Saltend Chemicals Park low carbon infrastructure Saltend Chemicals Park will be a produced at Saltend Chemicals gas-firing turbines to a blend of blue will provide opportunities for the wider systems in one project: a CO world first, produced at-scale Park will be exported and could hydrogen and natural gas, all businesses 2 Humber region to access and use the transport and storage system with minimum 95% capture and be used as maritime fuel at the that are supplied by power and steam low carbon infrastructure, maximising its and a hydrogen production 80% efficiency. It will be supplied adjacent facilities at the Port of from this plant will have a reduced carbon use and making it more cost-effective. and transmission system. to existing power and industry Hull. This would be the first port footprint. This is the first step to linking These will be the first of their customers in the Humber. in the world to offer low carbon the whole Humber industrial cluster kind in the UK. maritime refuelling. with low carbon infrastructure, creating the UK’s first hydrogen powerhouse.

40 Equinor H2H Saltend Equinor H2H Saltend 41 In line with the UK’s Industrial Clusters Mission and the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge, H2H Saltend Switching on a will deliver significant steps towards the UK’s climate change goals. hydrogen future

Hydrogen is the fuel of the future. Operational by 2026. H2H Saltend will deliver tangible reductions Hydrogen at scale by 2030. in CO emissions starting in industry Low carbon flexible power generation to complement renewable power. 2 Costs significantly lower through the sharing of low carbon infrastructure. and power. It will deliver new low carbon Potential for low carbon maritime fuels in line with international targets to infrastructure, create low carbon products halve shipping emissions by 2050. Opportunity for UK leadership in technologies, services and markets to for export, and accelerate the UK on its produce low carbon industrial products. journey to net zero. A low carbon economic recovery with sustainable jobs in the UK.

H2H Saltend is the launchpad for a hydrogen economy Through private and public support, this project can H2H Saltend is the kick-starter to a in the UK that will deliver low carbon energy to industry help ensure the UK’s commitment to net zero by 2050 is throughout the Humber region, demonstrating achieved, while encouraging cleaner economic growth Zero Carbon Humber. Working together cleaner growth through the creation of a low carbon and protecting and creating jobs in the process. Working export economy. with industry-leading partners, real-world results can with private and public sector support, be delivered quickly to reduce industrial emissions and the Humber can become the world’s first Saltend Chemicals Park is an ideal site to efficiently then deliver further reductions as the infrastructure is and effectively deliver low carbon infrastructure to the rolled out. H2H Saltend has the potential to launch the net zero industrial cluster by 2040. largest industrial cluster in the UK, significantly reducing UK into a new chapter of cleaner growth and global

CO2 emissions and leading the way for the Humber to energy leadership. www.h2hsaltend.co.uk become the world’s first decarbonised industrial cluster by 2040. www.zerocarbonhumber.co.uk www.equinor.com/en/what-we-do/hydrogen.html www.equinor.com/en/what-we-do/northern-lights.html

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