Oil and natural gas producer the United Arab Emirates aims to become one of the world’s lowest-cost producers of hydrogen, helping in the Middle Eastern state’s effort to slash polluting carbon emissions by nearly a quarter.
The country will use carbon-capture technologies to create what’s known as blue hydrogen, supplying cleaner energy, Sultan Al Jaber, chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and UAE Industry Minister, said at a virtual conference on Tuesday. Abu Dhabi holds most of the oil and gas in the OPEC member state and is the country’s capital.
Adnoc is expanding its capacity for technologies that can prevent carbon emissions from being released into the atmosphere and that use the resulting gas for further oil production by injecting it into wells. The company already has one project to capture, store and use carbon.
Using that technology, “we believe we can be one of the lowest-cost and largest producers of blue hydrogen in the world,” Al Jaber said. The UAE sees “no credible way” of meeting global climate goals without carbon capture and storage.
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