A combination of green and blue hydrogen will power the world in the future – The National

A combination of green and blue hydrogen will power the world in the future – The National

A combination of hydrogen produced from hydrocarbons and renewable sources will help the world meet its energy needs and fuel industrial, transport and power sectors in the future as economies continue to pursue their net-zero goals.

In the more immediate future, however, hydrogen produced from fossil fuels is more likely to dominate as it is a “lower cost” solution, top executives from Saudi Aramco and British energy giant BP told an online panel discussion at the Energy Intelligence Forum on Thursday.

“It is not going to be either blue or green hydrogen, it is going to be a combination [as] the economic optimal is not in one particular technology,” Ahmad Al Khowaiter, chief technology officer at Saudi Aramco, said. “There is an advantage today in fossil fuel-based hydrocarbons because it is what is available today and there’s [only] incremental capital required to produce hydrogen at scale.”