- Algeria’s Sonatrach and the Italian energy company Eni are joining in a pilot project to produce green hydrogen in Algeria which is expected to reduce CO2 emissions in the country.
- This is in continuation to the memorandum of understanding(MOU) signed by the two companies in March 2020 in Milan, which focused on hydrogen production.
Algeria’s Sonatrach and the Italian energy company Eni are joining in a pilot project to produce green hydrogen in Algeria which is expected to reduce CO2 emissions in the country. This is in continuation to the memorandum of understanding(MOU) signed by the two companies in March 2020 in Milan, which focused on hydrogen production.
Eni has its presence in Algeria since 1981.In a recent meeting, both the companies, Sonatrach and Eni have decided to accelerate cooperation in the technological field and also underlined their common goal of cutting down the carbon footprint of their respective activities.A road map has been developed for the joint assessment of the technical and commercial feasibility of the pilot project to produce hydrogen using electricity generated from renewable sources such as solar and wind. In a bid to preserve Algeria’s water resources, they propose to evaluate the use of water produced by oil fields for the electrolysis processes necessary for the production of hydrogen.Both the companies have agreed to further improve the energy efficiency of the processes, the electrification of treatment plants, the reduction of fugitive methane emissions, and the development of projects dedicated to new zero-emission energy solutions.
