NH3 Clean Energy: bunkering and CCS agreements for flagship project
By on June 10, 2025
MoU to join the offshore Angel CCS project
Click to learn more about the new CCS agreements between NH3 Clean Energy and Woodside.
NH3 Clean Energy and Woodside will collaborate to progress the Angel CCS project, a proposed large-scale, multi-user CCS facility that would be located offshore of the Pilbara in northwestern Australia. The pair will work on technical, commercial and regulatory approvals aspects, with the aim of executing commercial agreements for CCS services, prior to NH3 Clean Energy’s WAH2 Project and the Angel CCS project achieving FID. Phase one of WAH2 will entail production of 650,000 tons per year of CCS-based ammonia, requiring the sequestration of 900,000 tons per year of CO2.
This MoU on CO2 sequestration is another important piece of the jigsaw for the WAH2 Project – which would enable the production of low-emissions ammonia that is fundamental to the project and the Company’s philosophy. NH3 has been working with the Angel CCS JV and can now accelerate this collaboration as the project enters FEED.
NH3 Clean Energy’s Chairman Charles Whitfield, in his organisation’s official press release, 5 June 2025
Bunker JDA: Oceania Marine Energy, Pilbara Ports
Click to learn more about the agreement between NH3 Clean Energy, Pilbara Ports and Oceania Marine Energy to establish an ammonia bunkering service at the Port of Dampier. Source: Oceania Marine Energy.
Together, the trio will work to establish an ammonia bunkering service from Dampier Bulk Liquids Berth to anchorage by 2030. Pilbara Ports will oversee the control and management of the Port of Dampier, for issuing bunkering licences and for safe operations within port waters, NH3 Clean Energy will act as the supplier of low-emissions ammonia from its WAH2 Project, and Oceania Marine Energy as the ammonia bunker vessel owner and/or operator. The agreement builds on existing relationships between NH3 Clean Energy, Pilbara Ports and Oceania, and will look to confirm feasibility, secure the necessary environmental and regulatory approvals, and have the formal agreements in place to support FIDs for the WAH2 Project, bunker vessel and any necessary port infrastructure by the end of 2026.
The announcement notes that about 300 bulk carriers currently export iron ore from the Pilbara to Asia. If 16 of those bulk carriers used ammonia as fuel (and bunkering exclusively at the Pilbara end of the route), the fuel requirements would be around 600,000 tons per year of ammonia – roughly the entire planned production capacity of phase one of the WAH2 project.
With approximately 4,000 vessel visits associated with bulk exports and more than 1,000 distinct bulk carriers visiting our ports annually, the Pilbara is a natural beachhead to kick start the clean fuel transition. The green iron corridor between the Pilbara and East Asia has the scale, stable demand, port infrastructure, and risk management experience, to support the significant investment that maritime decarbonisation requires.
Pilbara Ports’ CEO Sam McSkimming, in NH3 Clean Energy’s official press release, 10 June 2025
Together with NH3 and Pilbara Ports Authority, we are laying the foundation for an at-scale ammonia bunkering operation that will be ready to support the global transition to low-carbon shipping before 2030.
Oceania Marine Energy’s Managing Director Nick Bentley, in NH3 Clean Energy’s official press release, 10 June 2025