Danbury-based Praxair Inc. has been awarded a hydrogen contract by Shell Oil Co. to supply high-purity pipeline hydrogen to Shell’s Deer Park, Texas, refinery for the production of ultra-low sulfur motor fuels.
Praxair will supply hydrogen to Shell’s refinery from a system of steam methane reformers and hydrogen recovery units connected via a 300-mile hydrogen pipeline network along the U.S. Gulf Coast beginning in 2010. This system is also strategically integrated with Praxair’s unique hydrogen storage cavern to provide high levels of supply flexibility and availability.
The 340,000-barrels-per-day Shell-operated refinery at Deer Park is the sixth largest in the U.S. It is a 50-50 joint venture partnership between Shell and Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
Praxair has been providing Shell’s Deer Park refinery and chemical complex with oxygen and nitrogen for more than 40 years as well as large volumes of industrial gases and services to 11 additional Shell facilities in four countries.
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