Three companies have been awarded contracts to design a hydrogen production and carbon capture plant for Uniper and Shell on the South Humber Bank.
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction, Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Technip Energies will compete to deliver the Humber H2ub proposal, and take it to the front-end engineering and design phase and potentially through to operation.
The step will be welcomed by industry, coming almost three months after Uniper was nationalised by the German government as a stabilisation measure over the energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the time, while it said there were no plans to sell, no update was given on the investment proposals at Killingholme Power Station, first revealed in April.
