H2 Global Energy and its development partners are progressing a range of renewable hydrogen and derivatives projects across the Middle Eastern and North Africa region, including renewable ammonia mega-projects in Jordan and Egypt.
Korean energy company LUPRO has entered into a long-term tripartite production, supply and sales agreement with Oman’s Muscat House and Thailand’s MA Corporation for the production and export of renewable ammonia to Asia, beginning in 2027.
To explore Trinidad & Tobago' s existing ammonia production capacity and the new imperative to decarbonize, the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago and Argus Media joined Project Features last month. To maintain its market share in key export destinations and meet climate goals, Trinidad & Tobago has a series of decarbonized ammonia projects underway, including the use of wind, solar and gas-based CCS pathways.
H2Global’s new €3 billion auction for long-term supplies of renewable hydrogen and its derivatives has received EU approval, including €1.2 billion for regional funding in Canada and Australia. H2Global also progressed partnerships with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and the Solar Energy Corporation of India.
Via a new round of funding from the US Department of Energy, several ammonia production projects will advance. GTI Energy will lead a $1.5 million pre-FEED study to apply advanced CCS to steam methane reforming at the Mosaic Faustina facility in Louisiana. Also granted funds, Ammobia will continue to progress its new, improved version of the Haber Bosch process.
AM Green Ammonia’s plans to use India’s Inter-state Transmission System to transfer renewable energy to its renewable ammonia plant in Kakinada have been approved and necessary upgrades funded by national authorities. Gentari will develop wind, solar and battery storage capacity to supply continuous power to the first phase of the project.
SwitcH2 Offshore and CorPower Ocean will develop a 300,000 tons per year offshore renewable ammonia production facility in Portugal, expected to become operational by 2029. Two separate partnerships - Samsung Heavy Industries & Lloyd’s Register, and MISC & Gentari - are also exploring similar floating production projects.
In Japan, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment will invest $212 million in the domestic manufacture of ammonia engines, fuel tanks and components. In Korea, the national Export-Import Bank has committed to supporting ammonia-fueled newbuilds.
TFI and Ammonia Europe have both launched voluntary certification schemes, aiming to help ammonia producers verify the emissions footprint of their products and attract customers. Both schemes have informed the development of the AEA’s umbrella certification scheme, which is now progressing to the pilot stage.
To explore the interim fuel guidelines and discuss their implications, we were joined by the IMO and Lloyd’s Register. Properly applied, the new fuel guidelines will ensure that ammonia systems achieve safety standards comparable to those of LNG or other alternative fuel systems, with special provisions made to ensure that ammonia’s hazards are effectively managed well within acceptable risk thresholds.