The long-term, binding offtake agreement has been signed for renewable ammonia produced at AM Green’s under-development facility in Kakinada, India. 500,000 tons per year of RFNBO-certified ammonia will be shipped to Europe as early as 2028. The agreement has been in the works since 2023.
At its pilot plant at the Nagasaki District Research & Innovation Center, MHI has successfully produced 99% pure hydrogen via cracking ammonia powered by steam-based heating. The company and its partners will work towards the development of commercial medium-scale, decentralized ammonia cracking systems.
Mitsui & Co. and JERA announced that they have been awarded CfD funds by the Japanese government to support the import of CCS-based ammonia from the Blue Point project in Louisiana, USA. By 2030 (2029 in JERA’s case), full supply chains will be established to import the ammonia into Japan, for use in the power generation, cement manufacturing, and other industrial sectors.
Anglo-Eastern announced that the first cohort has successfully completed its inaugural Pilot Training Course on Ammonia as a Marine Fuel. Already the ship manager for the ammonia-fueled vessel Fortescue Green Pioneer, Anglo-Eastern will soon take on that responsibility for a series of vessels coming out of Chinese shipyards, managing vessels for CMB.TECH.
CMB.TECH has signed an off-take agreement for renewable ammonia produced by Energy China at its now-operational Songyuan project in Jilin Province, northeast China. CMB.TECH will also acquire a minority stake in Jiangsu Andefu (ADF) one of China's largest ammonia supply chain companies and China’s first exporter of liquid ammonia in 2011.
Explore one of Uzbekistan’s first renewable ammonia projects, and the role of state-owned company Uzkimyosanoat in decarbonizing fertilizer production in the central Asian country.
INPEX has officially opened the Kashiwazaki Hydrogen Park, featuring a CCUS-based hydrogen and ammonia demonstration plant. The project is focused on local customers for each of the facility’s products: hydrogen, electricity, and ammonia.
China-based FZU Zijin has unveiled two applications for its proprietary ammonia cracking technology: a newly-opened ammonia-to-hydrogen vehicle refueling station, and a coastal vessel powered by an internal combustion engine, fed with cracked ammonia fuel.
A new multi-year partnership between the two parties will see Samsung Heavy Industries manufacture Amogy’s ammonia-to-power systems in South Korea for distributed clean energy generation based on ammonia-cracking technology.
State-owned conglomerate Energy China and logistics and terminal specialist ADF are establishing a renewable ammonia supply chain in northeast China. In our recent episode of Project Features, we explored the Songyuan production project, and ADF’s planned scale-up of ammonia storage and transport facilities across China’s coast.