LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Air
Products (NYSE: APD), the leading global hydrogen provider, and its
subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd. today announced that its
Heartland Hydrogen Pipeline in Alberta,
Canada has been commercialized and is supplying customers
linked to the 30-mile pipeline with product. Air Products
also announced two additional long-term supply contracts off the
pipeline with Dow Chemical Canada ULC and Evonik Degussa Canada
Inc.
"We're very pleased that this pipeline is onstream and we have
an established source of feed for the Heartland region's increasing
industrial demand for hydrogen. Hydrogen is a major feedstock
for bitumen upgrading and refining and is very important in
enabling the production of cleaner burning transportation fuels.
We located the pipeline in this region to support the
continued operation and development of multiple industries in the
area," said Steve Losby, general
manager–Canada at Air Products. "We are very pleased to add
both Dow and Evonik Degussa to the companies being supplied from
this hydrogen pipeline."
The pipeline is fed by Air Products' two hydrogen production
facilities in Strathcona County near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The hydrogen
will be used by Dow at its polyethylene operations in Fort Saskatchewan, while Evonik Degussa will
use the hydrogen feed at its hydrogen peroxide facility in
Gibbons, Alberta. In
March 2010, Air Products had
announced long-term hydrogen supply contracts via pipeline with
Shell Canada Energy, Sherritt International Corporation, and
Williams Energy (Canada) Inc.
Air Products received approval in 2009 from the Alberta Energy
Resource Conservation Board for the project serving refiners,
upgraders, chemical processors and other industries.
To view the complete news release, visit
www.airproducts.com/PressRoom/CompanyNews/Archived/2010/08Nov2010.htm.
***NOTE: This release may contain forward-looking statements
within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are
based on management's reasonable expectations and assumptions as of
the date of this release regarding important risk factors. Actual
performance and financial results may differ materially from
projections and estimates expressed in the forward-looking
statements because of many factors not anticipated by management,
including risk factors described in the Company's Form 10K for its
fiscal year ended September 30,
2009.
SOURCE Air Products