石油行业巨头发起氢能投资基金

据离岸工程网站7月9日消息 随着越来越多的政府将氢燃料纳入其全球变暖战略计划，两家能源行业巨头计划今年成立一个专注于氢能的投资基金。

长期以来，氢一直被视为一种潜在的清洁燃料，因为它只会排放水蒸气，但由于历史上高企的生产、运输和储存成本，它一直未能获得极大资本吸引力。

但由于欧盟目前正寻求推广所谓的绿色氢气，以帮助实现净零排放，预计该行业在未来几十年将吸引数千亿美元的投资。

新基金HydrogenOne Capital由荷兰皇家壳牌前高管JJ Traynor和曾在埃克森美孚工作、曾任Artemis能源基金经理的Richard Hulf共同发起。

Traynor 向路透社表示：“我们已经和市场上很多对这个主题感兴趣的人交谈过，但他们发现很难获得投资，所以我们的想法是让一个非常专注的团队致力于此。”

据路透社向投资者介绍，该2.5亿英镑（3.15亿美元）的基金将于2020年底推出。Traynor表示，该总部位于伦敦的基金将是全球首个氢专用投资基金。

巴克莱银行分析师预计，到2050年，市场对氢的需求将增长8倍，达到5.75亿吨/年，价值超过1万亿美元。

吴恒磊 编译自 离岸工程

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Oil Industry Veterans to Launch Hydrogen Investment Fund

Two energy industry veterans plan to launch an investment fund focused on hydrogen this year as more and more governments include the niche fuel in their global warming battle plans.

Hydrogen has long-been touted as a potential clean fuel as it only emits water vapour but it has failed to gain traction, mainly because of historically high production, transportation and storage costs.

But with the European Union for one now looking to promote so-called green hydrogen to help reach net zero emissions, the sector is expected to attract hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in the coming decades.

The new fund, HydrogenOne Capital, is being launched by JJ Traynor, a former Royal Dutch Shell executive, and Richard Hulf, who has worked at Exxon Mobil and been an energy fund manager at Artemis.

"We've spoken to a lot of people in the market who are interested in the theme but find it very hard to get invested, so our idea is to get a very focused team to be dedicated to this," Traynor told Reuters.

The 250 million pound ($315 million) fund is due to be launched by the end of 2020, according to a presentation for investors seen by Reuters. The London-based fund would be the world's first hydrogen-dedicated investment fund, Traynor said.

Analysts at Barclays expect demand for hydrogen to grow eight-fold to 575 million tonnes per year by 2050 in a market worth more than $1 trillion.