MEUDON, France – Vallourec, a world leader in premium seamless tubular solutions, signed a memorandum of understanding with Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, focused on advancing hydrogen storage solutions for the green hydrogen market.
The collaboration is intended to build a closer, long-term cooperation to better serve customers across the industrial green hydrogen value chain – including green ammonia, sustainable fuels and green steel manufacturing – as well as the clean power sector, such as data centers, a news release states.
The MOU includes the future integration of Vallourec’s Delphy storage solution with Baker Hughes’ compression solutions. The areas of collaboration will focus on optimizing compression – storage configurations, determining the most efficient operating pressures for each application and helping customers reduce total cost of ownership while increasing their competitiveness.
Delphy is Vallourec’s underground hydrogen storage solution, capable of storing up to 100 tons of green hydrogen gas vertically.
The collaboration with Baker Hughes, a leader in compression technology solutions that deliver improvements in the overall green hydrogen plant footprint, is a step in establishing Vallourec in the green hydrogen value chain, the release states.
“We are proud to initiate this collaboration with Baker Hughes, a recognized leader in compression technology,” said Philippe Guillemot, Vallorec board chairman and CEO. “Our capabilities are highly complementary, particularly as Baker Hughes holds strong expertise in compression, a critical step before the storage of compressed hydrogen. This cooperation confirms Vallourec’s strategy to develop relationships along the value chain and commitment to bringing green hydrogen, at scale, for industry decarbonization.”