TotalEnergies has partnered with Air Liquide to produce renewable hydrogen at La Mède in southeast France, aligning with its 2030 ambition to decarbonize the hydrogen used in its European refineries.
This new project complemented the Masshylia project to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis led by TotalEnergies in partnership with ENGIE.
These projects will reduce the La Mède biorefinery’s CO2 annual emissions by 130,000 tons, said TotalEnergies.
The project, worth €150 million, entails Air Liquide to build and operate a renewable hydrogen production unit at the La Mède platform with an annual capacity of 25,000 tons.
The unit’s coproducts will be recycled from the TotalEnergies biorefinery.
The hydrogen will then be used in the biorefinery to produce biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), said TotalEnergies.
The new unit is expected to start production in 2028.
“This new renewable hydrogen production project, carried out with Air Liquide, allows us to accelerate the decarbonization of our La Mède platform. Almost ten years after the announcement of its conversion, La Mède is continuing its transformation and is becoming a low-carbon hydrogen production center, thus contributing to the decarbonization ambition of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-D’azur region.”, said Vincent Stoquart, President, Refining & Chemicals at TotalEnergies.