PlasmaLeap Technologies has secured almost AU$30 million in Series A funding to further develop its plasma-assisted, NOX electrolysis technology process, and to progress deployment of decentralized “fertiliser hubs”. Also in Australia, OzAmmonia has signed an MoU with Jakson Green to explore a pilot project in India, demonstrating OzAmmonia’s NOX-to-ammonia technology.
A new study from the pair has found that, with the right regulatory settings, verified low-carbon ammonia marine fuel produced in China can achieve cost parity with VLSFO and LNG at current prices, even before additional subsidies or rewards are applied.
Pilbara Ports and Yara Pilbara will collaborate on government and stakeholder advocacy, developing a training program for safe ammonia handling, and planning of necessary fueling infrastructure at the Ports of Dampier and Port of Port Hedland.
In our March episode of Project Features, we explored the Western Green Energy Hub, a mega-scale renewable hydrogen and ammonia project under-development by InterContinental Energy. Learn more about project progress, architecture, and evolving offtake discussions as the project pushes towards FID in 2029-30.
Meet InterContinental Energy, developers of renewable hydrogen and ammonia projects at oil & gas scale. We will explore progress on the Western Green Energy Hub project in Australia, featuring up to 70 GW of wind and solar at full scale.
The new grant allows InterContinental to further advance and accelerate the mega-project in Australia’s northwest, which will feature up to 26 GW of hybrid wind and solar generation, and the production of up to 1.6 million tons per year of hydrogen.
In our latest technology landscape analysis, AEA Technology Manager Kevin Rouwenhorst explores four broad categories for novel ammonia production technologies: improved catalysts, sorbent enhancement, electrochemical ammonia synthesis, and other technology pathways (including geological, single-step and looping synthesis).
NH3 Clean Energy and Japanese trader ITOCHU will collaborate over the next two years to support the development of ammonia bunkering operations in the Pilbara by 2030.
An Australia-based consortium led by CSIRO, Australian Maritime College and TasRex has progressed plans for a five-day ammonia safety training course for port and ship crew, with the first cohort to undergo training in May-June 2026.
MOL has become the first shipping line and future fuel customer to join the Pilbara Clean Fuels Bunkering Hub initiative. MOL aims for its under-development, Capesize bulk carrier vessels to be bunkered in the Pilbara by 2030, servicing the iron ore supply corridor between West Australia and East Asia.