Equinor awards H2H Saltend Feed to Linde

The Norwegian energy firm has also tapped BOC for operation and maintenance

Norwegian energy company Equinor has awarded a Feed contract for its 600MW H2H Saltend blue hydrogen project to industrial gases firm Linde, as well as an operation and maintenance service contract to Linde-owned BOC. Linde will include its hydrogen and air separation technologies in the project design, which will be used in combination with UK firm Johnson Matthey’s LCH blue hydrogen technology. H2H Saltend, sited at the Saltend Chemicals Park in the UK’s Humber region, was shortlisted by the UK government as one of four large-scale blue hydrogen projects for connection to the East Coast Cluster for CCUS infrastructure. Equinor targets operations to begin in 2027, with the hydrogen used to