CO2 Summit: Nippon Gases urges greater diversity in European CO2 sourcing

Industrial gas major Nippon Gases has called for Europe to diversify its CO2 sources and build flexible infrastructure to mitigate ongoing supply disruptions associated with ammonia-derived CO2.

Speaking at gasworld’s European CO2 Summit 2025 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Azin Eskandari, Europe Business Development Manager HyCO at Nippon Gases, said that dependence on ammonia plants, historically Europe’s largest source of industrial CO2, has become increasingly precarious, with ongoing geopolitical tensions hitting energy prices.

Nippon Gases, the European business of Japanese industrial gas major Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation, currently sources CO2 from four major ammonia plants in Europe – in the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Italy. However, Eskandari highlighted a clear strategic shift by the company toward biogenic alternatives.