Gazprom intends to send gas via Nord Stream 2 in the near future, as well as manufacture hydrogen for Europe from the fuel delivered in Germany.
The corporation is in talks with the authorities of one of the federal states about building hydrogen manufacturing units.
Gazprom and the authorities of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are negotiating the building of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 facilities for hydrogen generation from natural gas. The Russian commercial representative in Germany, Andrei Sobolev, notified RIA Novosti of this.
The corporation had founded a subsidiary, Gazprom Hydrogen, according to Alexander Ishkov, head of Gazprom’s energy conservation and ecological department, and one of the pilot projects was the installation of a methane pyrolysis facility near the Baltic gas pipelines’ departure point in Germany.
EADaily previously talked with Andrei Konoplyanik, a member of the RAS Scientific Council for Systematic Energy Research, about this alternative. The scientist suggests that Russian gas be transported to Europe, and that in the EU’s “hydrogen valleys,” where demand for hydrogen is outpacing supply, hydrogen be produced from Russian gas, principally using pyrolysis technology (without oxygen and CO2 emissions). Because such gas does not cause CO2 emissions in Europe, it will not be subject to a carbon price.
