TotalEnergies calls for 500,000 TPA green hydrogen to decarbonize European refinery operations

TotalEnergies has launched a call for tenders to supply 500,000 tonnes per year of green hydrogen that it will use to decarbonize its European refineries.

The move should prevent the emission of ~5 million tonnes of CO2 each year from the company's European refineries by 2030, the company said in a press release.

TotalEnergies has six refineries in Europe, and all of them use hydrogen. Switching their hydrogen consumption to the green variety is a major step towards achieving the company's objective of reducing Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030, compared to 2015 levels.

Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, said in a statement: "This massive call for tenders is fully aligned with TotalEnergies' ambition to decarbonize all of the hydrogen used in its European refineries by 2030. Alongside other green and low carbon hydrogen production projects that the Company is already undertaking at La Mède, Grandpuits, Leuna and Normandy, we are now approaching third-party providers to supply us with green hydrogen to accelerate the decarbonization of our operations."

Besides decarbonizing operations at European refineries through a switch to green hydrogen, TotalEnergies has announced other hydrogen-related projects at its facilities. These include: 

• La Mède: The Masshylia project is a partnership with Engie to produce green hydrogen for the biorefinery's needs and currently in progress.
• Grandpuits: TotalEnergies and Air Liquide signed a partnership agreement in November 2022 to develop an innovative, circular system for producing 20,000 tonnes a year of hydrogen that is partly renewable thanks to the recycling of residual biogas from the biorefinery.
• Leuna: TotalEnergies and VNG, a German natural gas distribution company, signed an agreement in June 2023 for the future supply of green hydrogen to the company's Leuna refinery.
• Normandy: TotalEnergies and Air Liquide signed an agreement in September 2023 for the future supply of up to 15,000 tonnes per year of green and low carbon hydrogen to the TotalEnergies complex in Normandy.