A new Morocco-Europe hydrogen transport chain? Australia-based renewables firm CWP Global inked an agreement with German hydrogen logistics firm Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies to conduct a feasibility study on a green hydrogen transport chain from Morocco to Europe, according to a statement released on Thursday. A timeline on the study’s completion and the potential investment ticket for the project were not disclosed.

The details: The proposed hydrogen pipeline would see some 500 tons of green hydrogen transported daily from CWP’s 15 GW Amun hydrogen plant near the Moroccan city of Tan Tan to the European market using Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies’ hydrogen carrier tech, the statement notes. Though CWP’s Morocco facility is focused on green ammonia production — a green hydrogen derivative that is easier to transport — the company will opt to transport its green fuels in hydrogen form using LOHC’s hydrogen carrier tech, the statement tells us.

What’s this tech they speak of? Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies pioneered liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) which is a means of transporting hydrogen in liquid carriers without the need for pressurized or cryogenic carriers by binding the molecular hydrogen to a thermal oil, making it easier to transport, according to its website.

What they said: “As an option for storing and transporting hydrogen on an industrial scale, our LOHC technology has many advantages over other transport methods — particularly in terms of safety in urban areas or ports and the purity of the hydrogen achieved. We can also use the existing infrastructure for liquid fuels, further accelerating the development of the hydrogen value chain,” Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies Chief Strategy Officer Andreas Lehmann said in the statement.

REMEMBER- Morocco is well placed to become a major clean hydrogen producer: Morocco is among the five countries from our neck of the woods best placed to become major clean hydrogen producers by 2050. Just last month, Chinese state-owned energy firm China Energy Engineering Corporation inked a non-binding agreement with Morocco’s Gaia Energy and Saudi Arabia’s Ajlan & Bros to jointly build a green hydrogen production facility in the kingdom which is set to produce some 1.4 mn tons of the green ammonia and 320k tons of green hydrogen annually once operational.

IN OTHER GREEN HYDROGEN NEWS- French engineering firm Technip Energies is teaming up with Belgium’s John Cockrell on a new hydrogen focused JV, Reuters reports. The JV — in which Technip holds a 60% stake — seeks to raise some EUR 1 bn in revenues by 2030 as it looks to leverage hydrogen to transition hard-to-abate sectors away from fossil fuels.