Offshore Green Hydrogen Production Debuts on Fully Electrified Q13a-A North Sea Platform

Off the coast of the Netherlands, near Scheveningen, there’s some exciting stuff happening with an offshore gas rig that’s making waves in the energy transition. The PosHYdon pilot recently celebrated a big milestone by producing its first batch of green hydrogen on the fully electrified Q13a-A platform. It’s impressive, too—it’s being called the world’s first demonstration of combined offshore wind, gas, and hydrogen systems operating together.

This innovative project is set about 13 kilometers off the Dutch coast in the North Sea, blending electricity from land-based wind farms with seawater electrolysis and existing gas pipelines. At the heart of this operation is a compact electrolyser unit, about 1 MW in capacity, provided by Nel Hydrogen. This unit transforms demineralized seawater into hydrogen gas using renewable energy and then mixes that hydrogen into the natural gas stream for transport back to shore through existing subsea pipelines. How cool is that?

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