‘NEOM’ Accelerates Global Transition towards Green Hydrogen

‘NEOM’ Accelerates Global Transition towards Green Hydrogen
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‘NEOM’ Accelerates Global Transition towards Green Hydrogen

‘NEOM’ Accelerates Global Transition towards Green Hydrogen

NEOM has made qualitative progress in supporting the green hydrogen production industry on a large scale and exporting it to global markets, the Saudi State News Agecy SPA, reported.

This comes as a confirmation of the role it plays in achieving the vision of economic diversification led by Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and Chairman of the NEOM Company Board of Directors, paving the way for the Kingdom to reach carbon neutrality by 2060.

NEOM has recently announced the completion of the financial closure for the establishment of the NEOM green hydrogen plant of the NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC), resulting from an equal partnership between NEOM, ACWA Power, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

The total investment for the project amounted to SAR31.5 billion, of which SAR22.9 billion was funded by 23 financial institutions, including the National Infrastructure Fund (NIF) and the National Development Fund (NDF), in addition to local and international banks.

The NGHC's plant, built in Oxagon, is set to become the world's most significant green hydrogen production facility for commercial use. It is estimated to produce 600 metric tons of green hydrogen per day, to be exported to various countries worldwide once operated in 2026 AD; This will reduce 5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

In 2022, NEOM announced, through its subsidiary company Enowa, the establishment of the first Hydrogen and Innovation Development Center (HIDC), which will accelerate the introduction of new technologies to the market after their development stage in the laboratories, and the production, marketing, use, and transfer of green hydrogen fuel products.



Faint Glow in Saturn… Did a Mystery Object Crash into the Gas Giant on Saturday?

New image captured by a NASA employee and amateur astronomer appears to show a space object crashing into Saturn for the first time. Photo: NASA
New image captured by a NASA employee and amateur astronomer appears to show a space object crashing into Saturn for the first time. Photo: NASA
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Faint Glow in Saturn… Did a Mystery Object Crash into the Gas Giant on Saturday?

New image captured by a NASA employee and amateur astronomer appears to show a space object crashing into Saturn for the first time. Photo: NASA
New image captured by a NASA employee and amateur astronomer appears to show a space object crashing into Saturn for the first time. Photo: NASA

Astronomers have called for help to identify a mystery object that may have hit Saturn on Saturday in what could be the first recorded instance of a space object crashing on to the gas giant.

Studies suggest large objects- measuring over a kilometer across – strike Saturn once every 3,125 years on an average, according to The Independent.

Although data shows seven or eight small space rocks hit the planet every year, none have been spotted in the act by astronomers so far.

Compared to rocky planets where cosmic collisions leave impact craters, gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn don’t reveal such signs.

But a new image captured by a Nasa employee and amateur astronomer Mario Rana appears to show a space object crashing into Saturn for the first time.

Since gas giants have outer layers made of hydrogen and helium, strikes by asteroids or comets can quickly fade out.

Rana is part of the DeTeCt project, which analyzes images of Jupiter and Saturn using computer software. Videos taken of Saturn by the astronomer last Saturday show a faint glow in the left side of the footage, which seems like an impact event.

The Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory, or PVOL, a consortium of professional and amateur astronomers, has called for experts in the field to attempt to confirm or refute the potential impact on Saturn.

“Marc Delcroix reports a potential impact in Saturn captured in a few frames in a video observation obtained by Mario Rana. The potential impact would be very faint and is unconfirmed,” PVOL said in a statement.

“The very short impact flash occurred on Saturn on 5 July 2025, between 9am and 9.15am UT. It is very important to get other videos of Saturn taken during that time frame.”

PVOL has urged astronomers who may have also captured observations from this time to contact Delcroix and submit their data.

Leigh N Fletcher, a planetary science professor at the University of Leicester, also called for amateur space observers to share any potential videos they may have of the impact.

“Amplifying the call from Marc Delcroix and co over the weekend: the team are looking to verify/refute a potential impact on Saturn on 5 July, 9am to 9.15am UT,” Dr Fletcher wrote on BlueSky.

“Videos taken by amateur observers at that time might hold the key.”