MOL launched 10 MW green hydrogen plant at its Duna refinery

Hungarian oil and gas company MOL has launched a 10 MW capacity green hydrogen plant in Szazhalombatta, the largest in Central and Eastern Europe.

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The 22 million euros investment will make fuel production more sustainable, the plant will reduce the Duna refinery’s carbon dioxide emissions by 25,000 tons per year and will be able to produce 1,600 tons of green hydrogen per year.

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The new technology will gradually replace the natural gas-based production process, which currently accounts for one sixth of the MOL’s total CO2 emissions. The plant will start producing in the second half of 2024 and the company will use the green hydrogen primarily in its own network for fuel production.

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CEO of MOL Group Jozsef Molnar said that the company has reached another milestone: it can now produce green hydrogen without producing any greenhouse gases. Using this technology, MOL is able to achieve the same emissions reduction as if it took some 5,500 cars off the road overnight. After Szahalombatta, the technology will be implemented in the other two fuel production units of the group to make the fuel production process more sustainable at each of MOL’s refineries.

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