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company has been providing logistic support, market for hydrogen and its carrier fuels, OIL
manufacture, and repair services for Chevron such as blue ammonia, driving the UAE’s
[through Noble] and its oilfield service leadership in creating international hydrogen First well of Nasr 5 satellite
companies since 2002, including fabrication value chains and a local hydrogen eco-
of large marine steel structures, tubular system. We are pleased to join the Hydrogen platform online
inspection & repair services, and a successful Council and look forward to working with
key project for the kit and final fabrication, its members and the secretariat to advance The first well of Nasr 5 Satellite Platform has
painting, testing and load-out of rigid jumpers the use of hydrogen as a low carbon energy come online in a bid to maintain and enhance
for the Tamar and Noa fields. source”. crude oil production in Sivand and Esfand
OE ADNOC’s competitive blue hydrogen fields.
production is enabled by its abundant and Hamidreza Saghafi, the CEO of Drilling
ADNOC joins Hydrogen low-cost hydrocarbons, existing large-scale International Limited Company (DCI),
hydrogen and ammonia production facilities,
told PETROIRAN: “Following the activities
Council and its regional leadership in large carbon of Petroiran Development Company in
maintaining and enhancing oil production
capture and storage capacities. Its Al Reyadah
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), plant was the first commercial-scale carbon in Esfand and Sivand fields (Siri Operational
announced today, that it has joined Hydrogen capture facility in the Middle East and the District), after drilling and successful
Council – an international organization world’s first commercial facility to capture completion of wells SICF7-SICF6 and E1P6,
that aims to accelerate the global position of CO2 from the iron and steel industry. the first production well of Nasr 5 Satellite
hydrogen through its member companies. ADNOC plans to leverage its existing Platform also became operational.”
Hydrogen and its carrier fuels have great hydrogen production, infrastructure and He pointed out that the conditions of
potential as new, low carbon fuels, which partnership base and vast reserves of natural Nasr 5 platform of Sivand Field are unique
ADNOC and the UAE are well placed to gas to lead Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s due to the unconventional dimensions of
capitalize upon. hydrogen activities with the aim to become the platform and the instability of the seabed
The Council, which was launched in 2017, one of the lowest cost and largest producers of at the location of the platform, as well as
has already grown to include some of the blue hydrogen in the world. the limitations caused by power cables and
world’s largest, global companies, particularly In June, ADNOC announced that entry and exit lines to the platform, added:
in the energy and transportation sectors. Fertiglobe joined as partner to advance a “Deploying conventional drilling rigs in the
According to the organization, hydrogen is world-scale blue ammonia production facility Persian Gulf along this platform has been
expected to account for as much as 18% of at the TA’ZIZ industrial ecosystem in Ruwais, virtually impossible, and as a result of these
global energy demand by 2050, with over 30 Abu Dhabi. The final investment decision is limitations, drilling operations to develop the
countries having released hydrogen roadmaps expected in 2022, and start-up is targeted for Sivand field have not been possible over the
and more than 228 large-scale projects 2025 for the project. The facility’s capacity will past decades.”
underway along the value chain. be 1,000 kilotons per annum. Saghafi continued: “Considering the
His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed ADNOC is also working with the UAE concerns of the Iranian Offshore Oil
Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Company as the project employer, DCI
Advanced Technology and Managing Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) (a subsidiary of Petroiran Development
Director and Group CEO of ADNOC said: and ADQ in the Abu Dhabi Hydrogen Company) has started considering all the
“Energy demand continues to increase as Alliance (the Alliance). The Alliance partners possible scenarios by identifying technical
global populations expand and economic will collaborate to establish Abu Dhabi as a risks and economic feasibility along with
development accelerates. With an energy trusted leader of low-carbon green and blue simulation and dimensional analysis of
transition taking place, this means that more hydrogen in emerging international markets. existing drilling rigs.
energy is needed with fewer emissions. ADNOC SHANA
ADNOC is an early pioneer in the emerging

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