Wintershall Dea calls for low-carbon hydrogen from Norwegian gas

Germany's Wintershall Dea called on May 9 for low-carbon hydrogen to be produced in Germany from Norwegian natural gas, to support the decarbonisation of the country's industry.

"The North Sea can be the energy hub of the future to help us master the balancing act between security of supply and climate neutrality,” Wintershall Dea CEO Mario Mehren said at a meeting with companies and politicians from Norway and Germany in Berlin.

“Security of supply will require electrons and molecules – in addition to renewable electricity, initially natural gas and then large quantities of hydrogen – as well as the storage of CO2," he said. "We will need a wide range of low-emission technologies to achieve our climate goals.” Norway and Germany intend to travel along and shape this path of transformation together."

Wintershall Dea is involved in developing value chains for carbon capture and storage (CCS) and low-carbon hydrogen in Germany, Norway, Denmark and other countries on the North Sea coast. It shipped the first industrial CO2 from Belgium to Denmark for storage in March as part of the Greensand project.

The company estimated that hydrogen produced from natural gas with CO₂ captured and stored has a carbon footprint along the entire value chain of around 90 g of CO₂/kWh