In China, South China Morning Post reported that China Petrochemical Corp, the country’s largest oil refiner and fuel supplier, unveiled a plan to build a long-distance hydrogen pipeline to accelerate green energy development. The “west-to-east” demonstration pipeline – part of the national fuel transmission network development blueprint – will bolster the country’s energy transition effort, said the Beijing-based parent company of oil and gas giant China Petroleum & Chemical (Sinopec). “When completed, it will replace the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region’s fossil fuel-based hydrogen production, and help meet [growing] hydrogen demand in the transport sector,” China Petrochemical said in a statement. “It will also greatly relieve the nation’s green hydrogen demand-supply mismatch.” The ‘west-to-east’ demonstration pipeline will stretch over 400km from Inner Mongolia to Beijing. Under the current plan, the pipeline’s transmission capacity can be expanded to 500,000 tons in the long term, up from the initial 100,000 tons, according to the report.
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