Shell plc is collaborating with General Electric Gas Power to research methods of adapting LNG turbines to efficiently use 100% hydrogen made with renewable energy in an effort to decarbonize its global liquefaction projects.

Shell Global Solutions, the supermajors’ global resource development and liquefied natural gas unit, has signed a framework agreement with GE to find ways to integrate full hydrogen fuel sources without the use of water during combustion.

GE has developed methods to retrofit turbines in LNG facilities to run fully on hydrogen, but those designs currently require a large amount of water during the process. With Shell’s collaboration, the firms are exploring ways to perfect “dry operations” that will allow exporters with terminals in desert or arctic...