BP has collaborated with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Masdar of Abu Dhabi for its planned hydrogen projects in Teesside, UK.
The collaboration builds on strategic framework agreements signed by the companies in September last year.
ADNOC will make its first investment in the UK to acquire a 25% stake in the design stage of BP’s blue hydrogen project, H2Teesside.
BP and ADNOC will now advance the project, initially to the next stage of design, the pre-FEED stage.
H2Teesside is expected to kickstart the UK’s hydrogen economy at scale with the development of two 500MW hydrogen production units by 2030. The project is targeting start of operations in 2027.
Renewable energy company Masdar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to purchase a stake in BP’s proposed green hydrogen project HyGreen Teesside.
The project will generate 60-megawatt electrical input (MWe) of hydrogen when it starts operations in 2025 and will gradually increase production to 500MWe by 2030.
BP CEO Bernard Looney said: “By joining forces with ADNOC and Masdar we are reinforcing the world-leading role that Teesside, and the UK more widely, can play in developing new supplies of energy, as well as new skills and supply chains.
“We’re backing Britain and the resources, capability, and net-zero ambition here in the UK make it ideal for the development of low carbon hydrogen, and together we can help deliver a significant contribution to the UK’s newly increased hydrogen ambition.”
As part of the collaboration, BP and ADNOC will also conduct a joint feasibility study for a new blue hydrogen project in Abu Dhabi.
In addition, ADNOC, BP and Masdar have joined with Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) and Etihad Airways to explore production of sustainable aviation fuels, from hydrogen and municipal waste gasification, in the UAE.