Floating ammonia energy: new AiPs and partnerships
By on September 16, 2025
At the recent GasTech event in Italy, new agreements were signed for the development and execution of floating ammonia cracking, gas-based ammonia production, and renewable electricity-based ammonia production.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, KBR, Amogy: floating cracker to feed onshore hydrogen supply
Click to learn more. Graphic visualization of MOL, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Floating Ammonia Cracker Unit (FACU) design. Source: Mitsui O.S.K. Lines.
MOL, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries were awarded Approval in Principle from Lloyd’s Register for their Floating Ammonia Cracker Unit (FACU) design. The unit will feature KBR’s H2ACT® ammonia cracking technology (a single train, one thousand tons per day hydrogen production capacity), and Amogy’s Ruthenium-based ammonia cracking catalyst. Also at GasTech 2025, KBR and Amogy signed a partnership agreement.
By receiving ammonia, cracking it onboard, and delivering hydrogen to onshore, this solution contributes to the stable supply of clean energy in areas where building onshore facilities is challenging, and the establishment of a hydrogen supply chain toward decarbonization.
From MOL’s official press release, 10 Sept 2025
SBM Offshore: blue ammonia production
Click to learn more about SBM Offshore’s new ammonia FPSO design, focused on gas-based production. Source: SBM Offshore.
The American Bureau of Shipping awarded AiP to SBM Offshore for its floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit design. SBM’s vessel utilizes gas for hydrogen (and subsequently, ammonia) production, and features CCS capabilities to capture process emissions. The design helps “valorize” offshore gas that might otherwise be flared, or is unable to be stored or transported from the extraction site.
We are seeing rapid innovation and new developments around ammonia as an alternative fuel, whether as a carrier of hydrogen or as a fuel in its own right. ABS is proud to work with SBM Offshore on this project, sharing our deep insight into the safety challenges of ammonia, along with our extensive technical expertise on complex FPSOs.
Miguel Hernandez, ABS Senior Vice President, Global Offshore, in SBM Offshore’s official press release, 11 Sept 2025
The Blue Ammonia FPSO marks a pivotal moment in SBM Offshore’s journey to decarbonize and diversify and exemplifies our TRUE. BLUE. TRANSITION strategy. We continue to leverage our ocean infrastructure expertise to pioneer solutions for the energy transition. It’s a bold step into the blue economy, where we continue to unlock new markets and deliver sustainable value.
Olivier Icyk, SBM Offshore’s Chief Business Officer, in his organisation’s official press release, 11 Sept 2025
H2Carrier, Wison: delivering floating renewable production units
Click to learn more about H2Carrier’s P2XFloater™, with a 500 MW vessel to be delivered in partnership with Wison New Energies. Source: H2Carrier.
And the final partnership was signed between Wison New Energies and H2Carrier. Wison will contribute its EPCIC execution capabilities and project experience to the development and delivery of a 500 MW ammonia FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading facility) for producing renewable ammonia in north Norway, based on onshore wind power. Wison is a long-standing developer of FPSO and floating LNG vessels, and will leverage this experience in new applications.
By using remote, low-cost renewable energy in combination with cost-optimized construction, integration and project execution, we aim to achieve the most competitive production cost of green ammonia. This project, as well as our portfolio of international large scale projects based on the use of the P2XFloater™, will enable standardization and replicability which are key factors for achieving efficiencies in construction, integration and project execution.
Mårten Lunde, CEO of H2Carrier AS, in his organisation’s official press release, 10 Sept 2025