Linde signs supply agreement with its US$1.8bn hydrogen project in Texas

Linde has signed a long-term agreement to supply clean hydrogen and other industrial gases to OCI’s new world-scale blue ammonia plant in Beaumont, Texas, USA. 

Linde will construct, own, and operate a complex on-site that will include auto thermal reforming with carbon capture as well as a large air separation plant. Linde's extensive Gulf Coast industrial gas infrastructure will be integrated into the new complex. It will provide clean hydrogen and nitrogen to OCI's 1.1-million-tonne-per-year blue ammonia plant, the first greenfield blue ammonia facility of this size to come online in the US.

Linde will provide clean hydrogen to OCI by sequestering more than 1.7 million metric tons of CO2 emissions each year. Linde will use its pipeline network to provide clean hydrogen to existing and new customers along the US Gulf Coast in addition to supplying OCI.

Linde’s total investment will be approximately US$1.8 billion and the project is expected to start in 2025.