{"id":1577,"date":"2021-08-13T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2021\/08\/13\/hydrogen-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:16:52","slug":"hydrogen-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2021\/08\/13\/hydrogen-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Corpus Christi Authority and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to convert Howard\u2019s Javelina refinery services facility in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenport.com\/news101\/lng\/us-port-champions-green-hydrogen\" target=\"_blank\">Port of Corpus Christi<\/a> into the region\u2019s first carbon-neutral hydrogen production facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the extent that our identity as the leading export gateway for U.S. produced hydrocarbons has been solidified, we see an elegant symmetry in the prospect of becoming the nation\u2019s premier hub for carbon management,\u201d said Jeff Pollack, chief strategy and sustainability officer for the Port of Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well connected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Howard\u2019s Javelina facility is strategically positioned in the Port of Corpus Christi with pipeline connectivity to all six of the local refineries. Javelina controls approximately sixty million cubic feet per day (MMcf\/d) of hydrogen production through a combination of hydrogen entrained in the refineries\u2019 waste gas that the facility processes, and hydrogen produced through a steam methane reformer process.<\/p>\n<p>This hydrogen is currently sold back to refineries and other industries where it is used to remove impurities like sulphur during the refining process. The Port of Corpus Christi and Howard ultimately hope to scale hydrogen production for exports to overseas demand centres.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MOU, Howard intends to capture its carbon emissions at Javelina, avoiding atmospheric release which contributes to global warming. The Parties will collaborate to identify uses for the residual CO2 as well as capture and storage options. Captured CO2 can be directed to industries that require it for production, such as steel, or that assimilate it, like cement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carbon capture hub<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The port said it is uniquely suited to become a major carbon capture and sequestration management hub based on the high density of industrial CO2 emitters, a robust network of existing pipeline infrastructure, and the Port Authority\u2019s ownership of lands leading to state waters in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Academics from the University of Texas at Austin have mapped the geology of the Texas Gulf Coast and have determined this region is uniquely suited for injection and storage of pressurized CO2. The Port of Corpus Christi has committed to developing much needed infrastructure to collect and pressurize CO2 for injection in permanent geological storage formations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A planned hydrogen production facility will support a US port\u2019s carbon neutral ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}