Blue Hydrogen In Baytown, Texas | ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil announced support for a large-scale carbon capture and storage hub here in Houston. And we're making the first step towards that vision by building a world-scale hydrogen plant with carbon capture. It's a process to produce what's known as blue hydrogen. Blue hydrogen can be used as a fuel. And what makes the hydrogen blue is that when we generate it, we capture the carbon associated with that process and put it into permanent storage, and then that blue hydrogen can be used as a fuel in place of natural gas. When you use natural gas, you produce CO2. When you use blue hydrogen, you don't produce any CO2. The components that make ExxonMobil uniquely positioned to deliver this project are our people, our resources, and our facilities. ExxonMobil has a lot of experience when it comes to both CO2 carbon capture and producing hydrogen. When we talked about policy that's required for this project to get going, we're not talking about one specific thing. We need a combination of things for this project to really become a reality. The blue hydrogen plant in the Baytown complex could really be a blueprint for this type of fuel switching to be implemented in other industry in the Houston shipping channel, or globally at other industrial parks or large sites. I have two daughters, and I'm excited about the prospect of them knowing that I helped work on the energy transition and helped to shape the future of how we use and consume energy.

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