Linde will invest $400 million to build, own and operate the supply of nitrogen and oxygen to the Blue Point mega-project, a 1.4 million tons per year CCS ammonia joint venture from CF Industries, JERA and Mitsui & Co.
IHI and GE Vernova have built a large scale combustion test facility which will accelerate the development of gas turbines capable of operating on 100% ammonia. The two parties aim to have such gas turbines commercially available by 2030.
The Coega Green Ammonia project, which is targeting a production capacity of 1 million tons per year once operational in 2029, has secured $20 million in development funding from SA-H2 Fund, as well as completing development of the Crossroads Green Energy project, a 1430 MW cluster of solar PV sites that will provide 40% of Coega’s power requirements.
From 2027, the NEOM Green Hydrogen project will produce about 600 tons per day of renewable hydrogen, equivalent to 1.2 million tons per year of renewable ammonia. Project construction is now 80% complete.
Tarfaya, OCP Group’s 1 million tons per year renewable ammonia project, has received RFNBO pre-certification, unlocking access to the European market.
AM Green and the Port of Rotterdam Authority will work together towards the establishment of a million-tons-per-year renewable molecules corridor between India and northwestern Europe, via Rotterdam.
Pacific H2 has reached an agreement to lease indigenous land from the Aleut Corporation for wind energy generation on Adak Island, Alaska. The generated renewable energy will be used to produce about 200,000 tons per year of ammonia from 2031.
The new strategic agreement between the two parties will see KBR act as exclusive licensing and marketing partner of Hazer Group’s proprietary methane pyrolysis technology, which can produce low-carbon hydrogen and high quality graphite from biomethane.
A study spearheaded by the West Australian state government and completed in collaboration between the Mid West Port Authority (Australia), Port of Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems has shown that renewable ammonia transportation from Western Australia to Germany via Rotterdam is technologically and economically feasible.
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs will deploy Technip Energies’ proprietary ammonia cracking technology onboard its under-development mobile ammonia storage, transportation and transportation vessel.