Showa
Shell opens Tokyo’s first liquid hydrogen station
Posted: 18 June 2003
Showa Shell Seikyu KK (Showa Shell) has opened the first liquid
hydrogen refuelling station in Tokyo, constructed in partnership
with Iwatani Corporation and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government under
the Hydrogen Refuelling Station Pilot Programme. Showa Shell is
a Japanese company 50 per cent owned by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group
of Companies (Shell).
Showa Shell’s hydrogen refuelling station is part of the
Japan Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Demonstration Project, a programme
sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
to build five hydrogen refuelling stations in and around the Tokyo
metropolitan area.
The station will provide liquid and compressed hydrogen to a fleet
of prototype fuel cell vehicles provided by several automotive companies.
The vehicles will be used on the city’s streets.
The hydrogen refuelling station was officially opened by Harayuki
Niimi, Chairman of Showa Shell Sekiyu in the presence of Ryuichi
Itoh, Director-General of the Energy Conservation/New Energy Department
of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Masaomi
Koike, Director of the Environmental Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government; Akiji Makino, President of Iwatani Corporation; and
Gabriel de Scheemaker, Chief Financial Officer of Shell Hydrogen.
The 1,800-square-metre site of the new liquid hydrogen refuelling
station is owned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It is located
in central Tokyo, close to Showa Shell’s headquarters in Odaiba.
Shell Hydrogen, a global business of Shell, provided technological
know-how for the hydrogen refuelling station.
In April Shell Hydrogen opened the first Shell-branded hydrogen
refuelling station in the world, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Later this
year Shell Hydrogen plans to install a hydrogen dispenser at an
existing Shell retail station in Washington DC. Shell Hydrogen is
also involved in hydrogen demonstration projects for sustainable
mobility in California, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Shell is the only global energy group involved in hydrogen demonstration
projects in all three of the key hydrogen markets - North America,
Europe and Japan.
About Showa Shell
Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., was formed in 1985 as a result of the merger
between Showa Oil which had been founded in 1931, and Shell Sekiyu,
which and been in operation in Japan over 100 years as a subsidiary
of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies.
Showa Shell Sekiyu Group has three oil refineries with combined
crude processing capacity totalling 515,000 barrels per day. Included
in major products sold by the Company are gasoline, kerosene, gas
oil Fuel Oil, naphtha, jet fuel, bunker fuel, lubricants, bitumen,
LPG and other oil products.
In order, furthermore, to meet the changing needs of the society,
the Company is engaged in extensive research and development activities
from medium/long term perspective at Central Laboratory as its core
research centre, ranging from basic research in the fields of oil
products, new energy, fuel cells and environment related business
to development in manufacturing and technical services.
About Shell Hydrogen
“Shell Hydrogen” collectively refers to the companies
of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies that are engaged in
the pursuit and development globally of businesses related to hydrogen
and fuel cells. Each of the companies which make up the Royal Dutch/Shell
Group of Companies is an independent entity and has its own separate
identity.
The principal offices of Shell Hydrogen are located in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands, with regional bases in Houston and Tokyo.
Shell Hydrogen has been developing hydrogen and fuel cell businesses
since 1999.
For more information see www.shell.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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