Japan Hydrogen Energy Corporation (President and CEO: Eiichi Harada, Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; hereinafter referred to as JSE) and JFE Engineering Corporation (President and CEO: Kazumi Fukuda, Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; hereinafter referred to as JFE Engineering) have recently signed a contract for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a hydrogen pipeline in the Kawasaki coastal area.
This contract was concluded to carry out the FEED work as part of the Green Innovation Fund (GI Fund) project “Establishment of a Large-Scale Hydrogen Supply Chain” by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a national research and development agency.
Specifically, JFE Engineering will undertake the basic design of a pipeline that will supply domestically produced hydrogen to JSE’s Kawasaki LH2 Terminal, located in the Kawasaki coastal area.
Following this FEED phase, the pipeline to be installed will serve as a critical piece of infrastructure in the social implementation phase after the GI demonstration project is completed. It will supply hydrogen—vaporized from liquefied hydrogen imported from overseas at the Kawasaki LH2 Terminal—to consumers in the Kawasaki coastal area. This hydrogen is expected to be converted into electricity or steam for use by those consumers.
Through this FEED work, JFE Engineering will leverage its extensive track record and cutting-edge technology and expertise as a top runner in pipeline construction to design Japan’s first high-pressure hydrogen pipeline for large-scale hydrogen transportation.