Japan’s Inpex has begun front-end engineering and design preparations for a commercially promising blue hydrogen production project in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture that will utilise the company’s gas fields and existing natural gas infrastructure.
The project plans to build a hydrogen production plant with a capacity of approximately 100,000 tonnes per year, which will be fed from Inpex’s Minami-Nagaoka gas field in the prefecture, as well as from liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported by the operator’s Naoetsu Terminal, which is largely sourced from its Ichthys LNG project in Australia. Inpex has completed a concept development and feasibility study for the project.