Sungrow Hydrogen has successfully shipped 160 MW worth of alkaline water electrolysis units to ACME in Oman, to be installed and utilised at ACME’s renewable ammonia project in Duqm on the country’s southern coast. Sungrow will also supply 16 alkaline electrolysis units to Kaishan Group for a geothermal ammonia production project in Kenya.
Over 15 years, commencing FY2029, Samsung C&T will offtake ammonia produced at the Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex in Jamnagar, Gujarat, northwest India.
Following new agreements signed with the Inter-American Development Bank Group and the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank Group), a total of $420 million of finance has now been secured, with the remainder to be soon complete.
A feasibility study commissioned by North Sea Port and partners finds that an ammonia pipeline linking the coast to customers in the Ruhr industrial hinterland is technically and economically viable in the long term, should large-scale ammonia imports eventuate.
The partners announced that 100% ammonia fuel combustion has been achieved during testing in Japan, matching “full-load conditions” for GE Vernova’s F-Class gas turbines.
New academic research from the University College of London recommends immediate acceleration of ammonia deployment, helping to establish marine ammonia fuel within “commercial niches” by the end of the decade. While LNG and methanol generate some benefits, they risk competing with – rather than enabling – the long-term solution that is ZNZ (zero or near-zero emissions) marine ammonia fuel.
Eidesvik Offshore has signed a contract with a Norwegian shipyard for the retrofit of the platform supply vessel Viking Energy to run on ammonia fuel, which will be completed later in 2026.
China-based Shuangliang Group announced that it has delivered sixteen of its electrolysis units to ACME for the first stage of its renewable ammonia project in Duqm, Oman.
Pilbara Ports and Yara Pilbara will collaborate on government and stakeholder advocacy, developing a training program for safe ammonia handling, and planning of necessary fueling infrastructure at the Ports of Dampier and Port of Port Hedland.
Technology provider Talus, certification provider CleanCounts (formerly M-RETS), and farmer’s co-operative Central Farm Service plan to deploy two modular ammonia synthesis plants in Minnesota, producing up to 20 tons per day of anhydrous ammonia for use as fertilizer by local farmers.