ExxonMobil and partners launch UK low-carbon cluster

Solent cluster on south coast will include production of hydrogen and sustainable fuels for aviation and shipping

ExxonMobil and two local UK partners have launched a major low-carbon industrial cluster in the Solent region on England’s south coast. The Solent cluster, in which ExxonMobil’s Fawley refining and petrochemicals complex at Southampton will play a key role, is expected to include production of blue and potentially green hydrogen, as well as sustainable aviation and marine fuels. The cluster has the potential to capture 3mn t/yr of CO₂ from the region’s existing energy-intensive industries, according to ExxonMobil and its project launch partners—the University of Southampton and the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership. Reducing scope one and two emissions at the Fawley refining complex will b

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