Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/253273 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
OIES Paper: ET No. 04
Publisher: 
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford
Abstract: 
Egypt has one of the largest economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and several of its industries are large sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As part of its contribution to mitigate GHG emissions within the framework of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, Egypt is focusing on the development of an ambitious renewable energy programme. Some of Egypt's main industries are big consumers of hydrogen which is produced locally using indigenous natural gas without abatement of the CO2 emissions resulting from this production process. In the long-term, the production and consumption of this unabated hydrogen, known as grey hydrogen, could become a serious challenge for Egypt's exports of manufactured products. Thus, the Egyptian government is planning to develop low carbon hydrogen alternatives and has set up an inter-ministerial committee to prepare a national hydrogen strategy for Egypt. This paper explores the prospects for low carbon hydrogen (blue and green hydrogen) developments in Egypt, focusing on the potential replacement of Egypt's large domestic production of grey hydrogen with cleaner low carbon hydrogen alternatives.
Subjects: 
Blue and Green Hydrogen
Egypt
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Natural gas
Renewable Energy
ISBN: 
978-1-78467-186-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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