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Hydrogen and fuel networks

Fuelling the future.

Maintaining consistently high standards is essential for operating or developing fuel storage and transport facilities. The transition to low carbon and renewable fuels has created new challenges when making decisions for existing and new fuel networks.

In a rapidly changing industry, you need to understand emerging value chains and your place within them, collaborate with the right partners, and seize the right economic opportunities. You want to know whether existing assets can be converted to handle new fuels, and to what extent blending is feasible. Then, for any new fuel network infrastructure there are traditional concerns around risk, resilient design, schedule and cost.

What can we do for you?

We work closely with governments, energy firms, investors, developers and contractors to plan, design and deliver fuel networks worldwide.

We can offer you:

Independent advice

It’s about seizing the right economic opportunity. We have the knowledge and insight to help you navigate strategic decisions and develop your project in this fast moving market.

Comprehensive technical expertise

From concept to commissioning, our specialists get the details right, drawing on multidisciplinary professional expertise and a wealth of experience from across the world.

Certainty in delivery

We’ll help you gain a clear picture on project risk, schedule and cost, and manage your project effectively and collaboratively.

Lasting value

Our environment and social specialists assess potential impacts and opportunities, and identify ways to maximise the benefits of projects, to achieve the best results for your investors, customers, communities and the planet.

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NortH2, Europe. NortH2 will create the world’s largest system of offshore wind farms, transmitting power onshore to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, then transporting the hydrogen to industrial centres in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Services we provide

Hydrogen and fuel networks for tomorrow’s energy needs

Our multidisciplinary, experienced teams can support you at every stage of the project lifecycle.

We can:

Carry out concept design, optioneering and feasibility studies to reveal the potential and risks of sites and systems.
Frame a business case with full consideration of economic, social and environmental benefits and costs, to win investment and aid decision making.
Produce masterplans that outline the long-term development of sites and systems, informing later projects.
Provide specialised permitting, planning and regulatory support to help you get the go-ahead from the authorities for your project.
Carry out due diligence for investors on the technical and economic feasibility of a project for investment, or on the purchase of existing facilities.
Carry out pre-front end engineering design (FEED) to evaluate the project’s technical feasibility, identify potential risks and opportunities, and create a project plan that serves as a roadmap for the entire project lifecycle.

We can:

Conduct concept engineering studies to identify and select design concepts and technologies.
Conduct front end engineering design (FEED) to determine a project’s technical specifications, procurement needs and likely cost ahead of a final investment decision.
Design production facilities, pipelines, storage facilities and other infrastructure that are resilient, cost effective and optimise performance
Design systems and infrastructure to help end users convert their industrial processes to hydrogen
Offer process engineering and technical advice on the use of ammonia as a transportation medium for hydrogen, and the blending of hydrogen and natural gas.
Offer process engineering and technical advice in the production of eSAF (sustainable aviation fuel) from green hydrogen and captured CO₂.
Deploy GIS and digital tools such as our own Moata Route Optimiser to find the optimal route for pipeline assets.
Design upgrades and modifications to existing assets to facilitate transition between fuels.
Provide assurance and design management that gives you peace of mind in developing solutions.

We can:

Manage your project or programme from start to finish, driving delivery against time and budget.
Estimate and manage costs and risks and implement robust project controls to keep your project on track.
Draw up a robust logistics and supply chain strategy to secure scarce resources and expertise and minimise project cost and risk.
Use a common data environment to share documents and data with project partners and stakeholders, building trust and collaboration.
Manage procurement, administer contracts and supervise construction for an efficient supply chain, with appropriate risk allocation and incentives.

We can:

Hand over a functioning digital model of your assets that will help you manage ongoing operation and maintenance.
Advise you on asset management to maximise through-life value and preserve facility and pipeline integrity.
Apply our technical expertise to maintenance, repair and enhancement work that extends the life and improves the performance of your assets.
Analyse performance and advise on ways to increase revenue, reduce expenditure or limit environmental impacts.

Our experience

We have decades of experience in networks and facilities for a variety of fuels, and our energy teams are at the forefront of the hydrogen revolution. Some of our recent work has included:

ADNOC, UAE

We carried out front end engineering design for a project to increase capacity at Bu Hasa gas plant in UAE, with new and retrofitted facilities and equipment including an LP/IP compressor train, a lean gas compressor train, a high voltage substation, an IER building for LP/IP and lean gas compressor motors.
Bakken Missouri River Crossing, USA

Our team was retained to support the installation of a natural gas pipeline beneath the Lake Sakakawea Reservoir in North Dakota. Named Project of the Year for New Installation by Trenchless Technology magazine, the pipeline captures millions of cubic metres per day of natural gas that would otherwise be flared into the atmosphere.
Gasunie green hydrogen feasibility study, The Netherlands and Germany

We’re working for Gasunie to assess the technical and economic feasibility of offshore and onshore green hydrogen infrastructure that would use wind power from the Dutch North Sea to support the decarbonisation of energy in Europe.
NortH2, Europe

We’re playing a key role in the development of Europe’s green hydrogen economy in our role as technical integrator on the NortH2 project to convert 10GW of offshore wind power into 1Mt of green hydrogen a year by 2040.
North Sea wind power hub, Europe

We’re working as the power-to-gas solutions contractor on this project, which aims to combine offshore wind, the power sector and hydrogen production and to supply clean energy into existing north European energy markets.
South Hook LNG terminal upgrade, UK

We provided engineering, procurement and contract support for the development of a 500MW combined heat and power plant and integration with the adjacent South Hook liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Wales. The upgrades and modifications we designed allowed the LNG to be regasified using waste heat, reducing fuel consumption and emissions.
Synthetic methane study, Middle East and Japan

We carried out a feasibility study on behalf of a Japanese consortium to investigate the potential of large-scale synthetic methane production in several Middle East locations to provide Japan with a new source of sustainable fuel. The levellised cost model developed for this work will also be of use in many other contexts where countries are making a transition to greener fuels.

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