Worley has won the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for the Central Queensland Hydrogen (CQ-H2) project, led by Stanwell Corporation Limited and its consortium members, namely Iwatani Corporation, Kansai Electric Power Company, Marubeni and Keppel Infrastructure, in Queensland (Australia).
The project initially plans to install up to 640 MW of electrolysers and produce up to 200 t/d of gaseous renewable hydrogen with off takers purchasing the gas to convert to renewable ammonia or liquified hydrogen. The project also aims to deliver hydrogen via its different carriers, to Japan and Singapore, as well as supplying large domestic customers in Central Queensland. Commercial operations are expected to start in 2028. If successful, the project capacity could be expanded in several phases to reach 2,240 MW of electrolyser capacity, capable of producing 800 t/d of gaseous renewable hydrogen by 2031.
The project is backed by funding from all consortium members, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and the Queensland Government’s Queensland Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Jobs Fund.