Saudi Arabia Hydrogen Strategy & CCS Coupling

Saudi hydrogen strategy couples blue hydrogen to CCS as its commercial core: Jazan refinery hydrogen/steam/power complex ($12 billion facility), Jafurah unconventional gas (operations from 2025) as feedstock, NEOM green hydrogen for the renewable leg, and ammonia as the export molecule (Fertiglobe low-carbon shipments, back-cracking R&D for reconversion). Aramco frames blue hydrogen as decarbonised fossil value — capture at source for storage or use in plastics, fuels, chemicals and EOR — scaled through the Jubail hub and commoditised globally. The first hydrogen fuelling station (2019) with cars and buses in local conditions, Geely/Renault hybrid-powertrain equity (2024) for synthetic-fuel R&D, and the $570 billion global hydrogen investment horizon to 2030 complete the commercial surround. No verified share-of-capex figure is stated here: New Energies spend is multi-billion and rising, exact splits undisclosed.