PJSC LUKOIL and Rusatom Overseas JSC (a member of the ROSATOM Group) have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their collaboration in the production and supply of green hydrogen for the PETROTEL-LUKOIL S.A. refinery in Ploesti, Romania.
The parties want to investigate the feasibility of building a green hydrogen production unit at the refinery, which would reduce CO2 emissions, as well as the question of securing government funding for the project on both the national and European levels.
“Together with our technological partner, ROSATOM State Corporation, we will evaluate prospects for our plant’s switching to one of the most environmentally-friendly technology of hydrogen production, which enables refineries to greatly reduce their carbon footprint. In the future, this will allow us to replace all traditionally produced hydrogen, generated by methane steam reforming, with green hydrogen, generated via electrolysis in symbiosis with renewable energy sources,” said Rustem Gimaletdinov, Vice President for Oil Refining, Petrochemicals and Gas Processing of PJSC LUKOIL.
“ROSATOM acts as investor, developer and technological partner in hydrogen projects in Russia and abroad. We are happy to offer our cooperation in supplying “turnkey” low-carbon hydrogen to LUKOIL. We are studying possibilities of manufacturing hydrogen at the Romanian refinery by employing electrolysers with production capacity of 10 thousand cubic metres per hour,” noted Evgeny Pakermanov, President of Rusatom Overseas JSC​.​
Green hydrogen production projects have significant potential for decarbonizing industrial facilities and contributing significantly to the solution of the CO2 emissions problem.
