Many thanks for sharing your insights and a positive outlook on steel production.

My apologies for being a stickler for details here, but should this read like "natural gas is made into synthesis gas (aka syngas) using the steam reforming process; syngas then acts as reducing agent."

BTW, there are also processes that can reduce iron oxide in molten salt using hydrogen only, e.g. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ra/d0ra06575g

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/gc/c8gc02756k/unauth