Meet SwitcH2, developers of a Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for renewable ammonia production, featuring 300 MW electrolyzer capacity onboard. We will explore two offshore ammonia production projects underway: Project Atlantico in northern Portugal and Project Namibia near Lüderitz.
UEG, Abu Qir Fertilizers, Alexfert and Orascom Construction will explore development of a renewable ammonia plant producing 480 tons per day in Alexandria, Egypt.
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.
To be managed by the European Investment Bank, the grants include €35 million to Norwegian company Scatec for its under-development Egypt Green project in Ain Sokhna, with FID expected in the coming months.
Three successful recipients of the “Morocco Offer” last year, ORNX, TAQA Morocco and Moeve have progressed their large-scale renewable ammonia projects in Morocco’s south.
In a series of recent agreements, UAE-based ADNOC has reinforced an emerging, low-emission ammonia supply chain centred on the Middle East. After acquiring global polymer giant Covestro last year, two ADNOC subsidiaries – Covestro and Fertiglobe – will now collaborate on the supply of CCS and renewable ammonia from production sites in the Middle East to global locations.
Two Namibia-based renewable ammonia projects – Hyphen Hydrogen Energy and Zhero Molecules Walvis Bay – have received development funding from the African Development Bank and the SDG Namibia One Fund, respectively.
GreenGo Energy and SELECT Energy have signed a strategic partnership to develop a 4 million tons per year renewable ammonia project near Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott. The Mauritanian government has also reached a framework agreement with German developer Möhring Energie for the development of project NAYRAH, which will produce about 400,000 tons per year of renewable ammonia. This follows the government’s launch of its national “Green Hydrogen Code” in October this year.
Minbos Resources and Talus Renewable have signed an agreement for the joint development of the Capanda Green Ammonia Project in Angola. The project will be powered by hydroelectricity and is set to come online in 2028.
China-based Kaishan Group has signed an agreement to develop a 165 MW geothermal plant in Kenya to power renewable ammonia and fertiliser production.