Petrofac, a global energy services company, has won a tender for a new energy project on Sakhalin Island in Russia that would transform wind energy into hydrogen.
Petrofac has inked a three-year consulting services framework deal for a green hydrogen project’s early design stages.
H4 Energy, which is managed by H2Transition Capital (H2TC), has signed a contract for engineering services. It involves a January-starting preliminary screening study. Petrofac will investigate ways for capturing wind energy to make green hydrogen as part of the project. This will take place in particular at a location on Sakhalin Island’s southwestern tip.
At the preparatory stage, the company will assess:
- hydrogen production technology;
- hydrogen carriers such as liquid hydrogen and ammonia;
- export options;
- turbine size;
- electrical systems;
- risk analysis.
The team will look at ways to boost the total installed capacity to 3 gigawatts in future phases, starting with 100 megawatts.
Each year, the facility will create 17,000 metric tons of hydrogen.
In addition to helping the Petrofac team in Sakhalin, the Petrofac team will work in Woking (UK).
“We are thrilled to begin to research work on this project, the first clean hydrogen development on Sakhalin and the first new energy project for Petrofac in Russia,” said Jonathan Carpenter of Petrofac. The island’s land availability is excellent, as is its proximity to the coast and proximity to the East Asian market.”
“This project is the first of many in our ambitions to address the massive need for hydrogen that exists now and will continue to develop,” said Artem Matyushok, a founding partner of H2TC.
Since 2006, when the Sakhalin Technical Training Center opened, Petrofac has had a presence on Sakhalin. A contract with Sakhalin Energy to offer design, procurement, and construction services for an onshore processing plant increased the company’s scope in 2017.
