Air Liquide develops its hydrogen business in the US

04-Sep-2006

Air Liquide Large Industries U.S. LP announces that its new hydrogen unit in Bayport, Texas has been in production since July 28 and is fully integrated into Air Liquide's Texas Gulf Coast Pipeline system. The Bayport steam methane reformer (SMR) has a capacity of 100 million standard cubic feet per day. It is one of the main components of an expansion of Air Liquide's hydrogen system on the Gulf Coast. A newly built purification station employing Air Liquide patented technology has been added in Freeport, Texas, and a 23-mile extension to the pipeline itself has been built between Bayport and Texas City, Texas.

As announced previously, more than half the capacity of the new SMR will go toward supplying a major refinery, where Air Liquide's pipeline network will provide the hydrogen needed to produce new ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel. The new SMR will also meet the increasing hydrogen and steam needs of Air Liquide customers south of the Houston ship channel.

Air Liquide has also begun work on another SMR in California. This unit, scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2008, will supply hydrogen needs anticipated in the San Francisco Bay industrial basin.

Pierre Dufour, Air Liquide Group Executive Vice-President and President and CEO, American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc., said: "Air Liquide's hydrogen business in the US doubled between 2000 and 2004 and has doubled again from 2004 to the present. With this new hydrogen plant on-stream and the SMR underway in California, we are committed to continue to steadily increase the supply of hydrogen to serve the needs of refiners and petrochemical customers in major industrial basins."

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