H2 Industry

Air Liquide operates an extensive industrial gas pipeline system, which spans nearly 2,000 miles, supplying oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen to customers along the U.S. Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana. One of our operations is the world’s largest hydrogen storage cavern, located in Beaumont, Texas, that provides hydrogen on demand to our refinery customers on the Gulf Coast. Located in an underground cavern, this facility has a storage capacity of over 4.5 billion cubic feet which enables it to be a safe, efficient, and reliable hydrogen supply to our customers in the refinery and petrochemicals industries.

The world’s largest PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolyzer in operation, in Bécancour, Québec, is a membrane-based, renewable hydrogen production unit in Canada. As the world's largest PEM electrolyzer in production, the site produces hydrogen gas and liquid hydrogen for industrial customers in Canada and the U.S. Supplied with renewable energy, this unit produces up to 8.2 tonnes per day of low-carbon hydrogen to supply our industrial customers.

Air Liquide’s hydrogen plant located in North Las Vegas, Nevada, officially began its operations in early 2022. The plant is the first world-scale liquid hydrogen production facility dedicated to the mobility market, ensuring a reliable and safe supply of renewable hydrogen fuel for drivers in California who are at the forefront of the clean energy transition.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company, operates an Air Separation Unit (ASU) in Calvert City, Kentucky. This liquid hydrogen plant produces 10 tonnes of liquid hydrogen per day for a variety of uses from the production of glass, metals, chemicals, and electrical power to hydrogen fuel cell applications. In addition, the facility ensures long-term reliability of supply for its merchant gas customers in the midwest region.