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    KBR Bags South Korean Hydrogen Project

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It will provide technical solutions to support SK E&S' plan to build a liquefied hydrogen facility.

by: Shardul Sharma

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KBR Bags South Korean Hydrogen Project

KBR has been awarded a contract to provide technical advisory solutions to SK E&S for its hydrogen development business in South Korea, it said in a January 19 statement.  

Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide technical solutions to support SK's plan to build a 30,000 metric tons/year liquefied hydrogen facility and supply liquefied hydrogen to various metropolitan areas in South Korea. The initial phase of the project includes KBR reviewing key licensor technologies. 

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SK Group announced last month that it would invest in assets that will provide hydrogen as a next-generation eco-friendly energy source.  The company, South Korea’s largest LNG supplier, is also looking to operate an eco-friendly blue hydrogen mass production system. It imports more than 3mn mt/yr of LNG and plans to additionally produce 250,000 mt of blue hydrogen from 2025 by using natural gas.