EET Fuels has advanced its Hydrogen Fuel Switching project with Wood to the FEED stage, with a final investment decision expected in 2025 to further its decarbonisation efforts.

EET Fuels (or “the Company”, the commercial name of Essar Oil UK), which intends to build the world’s leading low-carbon process refinery, has advanced to the front-end engineering design (FEED) stage of its Hydrogen Fuel Switching project. The Company’s co-located Track One low-carbon hydrogen production company, EET Hydrogen, will deliver the hydrogen.

To carry out this project phase, EET Fuels has hired Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering, to coordinate final fuel system designs for the company’s hydrogen-ready crude distiller furnace.  Wood will also redesign the key infrastructure and control systems to ensure hydrogen combustion is efficient and safe.

The completion of FEED will allow EET Fuels to make a final investment decision (FID) on the hydrogen fuel switching project next year. 

The initiative will allow for fuel switching to assets such as EET Fuels’ hydrogen-ready crude distiller furnace.  This is the first of its sort in a UK refinery, and it can run on either 100% hydrogen or a fuel-gas combination.  Once the furnace is powered by hydrogen from EET Hydrogen’s manufacturing plant, it will lower emissions at the Stanlow Refinery by 0.2 million tonnes per year.

Once hydrogen is available from EET Hydrogen, all fired heaters on site will be able to switch fuel. The progress of this project indicates the company’s strong momentum in meeting its goal of decreasing CO2 emissions at the Stanlow Refinery by 95 percent by 2030.

Deepak Maheshwari, CEO of EET Fuels, says, “We have groundbreaking plans for EET Fuels in the UK with the Stanlow Refinery at its heart. Hydrogen Fuel Switching is an integral part of these plans, and conducting the FEED alongside a great partner in Wood will allow us to confidently move forward to final investment decision. We remain on track to become the world’s first low carbon process refinery, providing security of fuel supply to the UK, as well as building and maintaining employment in the UK’s industrial heartlands.”

Martin Simmonite, Senior Vice President for UK Operations at Wood, adds, “We are delighted to be working on this decarbonisation project with EET Fuels, providing critical infrastructure that is fundamental to the energy transition and UK energy security.” 

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