Air Liquide has announced a renewable hydrogen production project at La Mède, France, to cover the hydrogen needs of TotalEnergies’s biorefinery.
Air Liquide will build, own and operate a new hydrogen production unit at TotalEnergies’ La Mède site, with a capacity of 25,000 tonnes per year. It will enable the production of renewable hydrogen from recycled biogenic by-products from the TotalEnergies biorefinery, instead of using fossil hydrocarbons as feedstock. The renewable hydrogen produced will be used mainly by the biorefinery for the production of biofuels and sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
Emilie Mouren-Renouard, member of Air Liquide’s executive committee says: ‘We are proud to support TotalEnergies in its project to decarbonise the La Mède biorefinery, thanks to our strategic positioning in the Fos-sur-Mer basin. Two years after the announcement of the circular economy project in Grandpuits, and following on from our memorandum of understanding to supply TotalEnergies’ Gonfreville refinery with renewable hydrogen from the Air Liquide Normand’Hy electrolyser, we are continuing our partnership with TotalEnergies to serve the energy transition through the implementation of our decarbonisation solutions.’
