Air Products: Hydrogen-supply agreement in Texas  

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced a long-term agreement with Shell Oil Co. (www.shell.com) for the supply of a significant portion of the hydrogen requirements at Shell’s Deer Park, Tex. refinery. The hydrogen supply will commence in mid-2013. The Deer Park facility will be connected to Air Products’ industry-leading Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline supply network that serves multiple refinery and petrochemical companies in the region. Air Products is working toward enhancing its hydrogen pipeline supply capability in the Gulf Coast to make it the world’s largest hydrogen pipeline network. Air Products announced plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline in October 2010. The new pipeline extension, which is in the project execution phase, will connect Air Products’ Texas hydrogen system to the Louisiana hydrogen system. Once complete, Air Products’ hydrogen pipeline supply network will stretch from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. This integrated pipeline system will unite over 20 hydrogen plants and over 600 miles of pipelines. It will supply the Louisiana and Texas refinery…