Case study 01 / Hydrogen & CCS
A carbon-neutral hydrogen facility — built around what comes out of the ground.
Scope
Concept-level design and engineering of a Carbon-Neutral Hydrogen Production Facility extracting hydrogen from in-situ oil. The facility integrates pre-combustion CO2 capture, hydrogen purification, and on-site oxygen production into a single carbon-neutral process train.
Hydrogen-from-reservoir is an emerging technology with no clean industry template. The job was to size and shape a credible plant around a still-evolving process concept, and to put a Class 5 estimate on the table that the client could take forward to investors and partners.
Approach
Each step in the train — partial-oxidation reforming, CO2 capture, hydrogen separation, and downstream compression — required direct vendor consultation and side-by-side technology comparison. Commercial offerings for amine, PSA, ASU, LOx and CCS were mapped to the project's plant-gate hydrogen rate and CO2 purity targets.
The conceptual deliverables converged on a process simulation, a heat & material balance, sized equipment packages, and a Class 5 capital cost — enough to underwrite the next stage of project development.
Engagement
Surface Facilities Engineering Lead through the conceptual phase. Worked with Vedra's R&D team on process selection, equipment package definition, and vendor engagement for the specialist hydrogen, ASU and CCS packages.
Deliverables
- Project schedule and planning
- Project budget estimation (Class 5)
- Project resourcing estimation
- Surface facilities process simulation
- Surface facilities PFDs
- Surface facilities heat & material balance
- Equipment sizing — pre-combustion amine, hydrogen PSA, ASU, LOx cryogenic, and CCS compression packages
- Vendor RFQs and bid evaluation
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