Masdar, Mitsubishi Chemical Group and INPEX explore setting up world’s first commercial-scale polypropylene production using green hydrogen and CO2

Masdar, Mitsubishi Chemical Group and INPEX explore setting up world’s first commercial-scale polypropylene production using green hydrogen and CO2

Signing witnessed by HH Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, and Japan’s Prime Minister, HE Fumio Kishida, during Japan-UAE Business Forum in Abu Dhabi In lead-up to UAE hosting COP28, collaboration displays UAE’s flagship renewable energy company’s commitment to forging global partnership to advance green hydrogen development towards net-zero future Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar, the UAE’s clean energy powerhouse, Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation (MCG) and INPEX CORPORATION signed an agreement to explore production of the world’s first commercial-scale polypropylene made from CO2 and green hydrogen in Abu Dhabi. The green hydrogen and CO2 will be converted to e-methanol which will subsequently be converted to propylene and polypropylene. The execution of the agreement was announced during the Japan-UAE Business Forum, in Abu Dhabi, attended by HH Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, and Japan’s Prime Minister, HE Fumio Kishida . The three companies will investigate the techno-economic feasibility of a commercial-scale green hydrogen to e-methanol and polypropylene project. Masdar’s CEO, Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, said, “We are very excited to be partnering with flagship Japanese companies, Mitsubishi Chemical Group and INPEX.