Hynfra will lead a consortium of Polish and Japanese partners to develop a solid oxide electrolysis technology platform for the production of electrolytic hydrogen and ammonia, with a demonstrator to be opened in Poland next year.
ITOCHU has signed a world-first contract with Sasaki Shipbuilding for a 5000 m3 ammonia-fueled, ammonia bunkering vessel. The vessel is set to be delivered by September 2027.
Japan Bank for International Cooperation and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation will fully finance Mitsui & Co.’s investment in the Blue Point mega-project in the USA. The project – which will entail around $4 billion total investment – reached FID earlier this year.
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.
Commissioning work on the CCS-based hydrogen and ammonia demonstration project near Kashiwazaki City, Japan has begun, with project partner INPEX introducing gas feedstock to the hydrogen production plant.
EXMAR announced this week that a WinGD dual-fuel ammonia engine has now been installed onboard the first of its under-construction vessels in South Korea. Ammonia-fueled ammonia carriers similar to EXMAR’s are currently being built in Korea, China, and Japan, with the first of these vessels to hit the water next year.
Marubeni will offtake about 250,000 tons per year of CCS-based ammonia from ExxonMobil’s Baytown Texas facility, to be co-fired at the Kobe power plant in Japan. Marubeni joins Trammo, ADNOC, Mitsubishi, Air Liquide and SK Inc. as project partners, with a series of offtake agreements already signed.
Amogy, GS Engineering & Construction, HD Hyundai Infracore, and the city of Pohang will collaborate to deploy a 1 MW ammonia-powered distributed power generation system in 2026, scaling up to a commercial, 40 MW system by 2028-29.