Energy & Science

Saudi Arabia to Use $110 Billion Gas Field for Blue Hydrogen

Kingdom expects to start producing gas from Jafurah in 2024
“We are biggest adventurers” on blue hydrogen: energy minister

Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, center, during the Saudi Green Initiative in Riyadh, on Oct. 23. — Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, center, during the Saudi Green Initiative in Riyadh, on Oct. 23.
Photographer: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images

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By Matthew Martin and Salma El Wardany

October 24, 2021 at 9:23 AM UTC

Updated on

October 24, 2021 at 11:05 AM UTC

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Saudi Arabia said it would use one of the world’s biggest natural-gas projects to make blue hydrogen, as the kingdom steps up efforts to export a fuel seen as crucial to the green-energy transition.