ABB to support development of floating ammonia production
ABB will engineer and supply automation and electrification technology solutions for SwitcH2’s under-development floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.
ABB will engineer and supply automation and electrification technology solutions for SwitcH2’s under-development floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.
In our September Episode of Project Features, project partner Lapis Carbon Solutions and LSB Industries walk us through their CCS ammonia project in El Dorado, Arkansas. Permitting is expected to be finalized next year, followed by commencement of CCS operations in late 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.
23,500 tons of ammonia certified under the Fertilizer Institute’s Verified Ammonia Carbon Intensity (VACI) Program were loaded onto the Trafigura-operated Oceanic Star in Louisiana last month. The cargo is en route to Antwerp, where chemicals and materials manufacturer Envalior will use the low-carbon ammonia as a feedstock to produce the monomer caprolactam and downstream resins.
Spain-based explosives and chemicals manufacturer Maxam has announced the inauguration of a new renewable ammonia plant at its manufacturing site outside Burgos in the north of the country. The containerised, modular unit produces ammonia from electricity, air and water, and was provided by TalusAg.
Cleanergy’s integrated renewable pilot plant in Walvis Bay, Namibia is now online. The pilot is the first phase of a much larger project which will produce commercial scale renewable ammonia fuel: 185,000 tons per year by 2028.
Meet China Energy Engineering Group (Energy China) and logistics and terminal specialist Jiangsu Andefu (ADF), two partners in an emerging renewable ammonia supply chain in northeast China. Energy China’s Songyuan project is expected to produce a combined 800,000 tons of renewable ammonia and methanol annually at full scale. Energy China also co-owns an ammonia storage terminal at Panjin Port along with ADF, and in 2024 jointly initiated the establishment of the “Northeast Asia Green Bunkering Fuel Supply Chain Alliance”.
Lotte Fine Chemical will supply, transport and store clean ammonia fuel for GS E&C and Amogy’s distributed power generation demonstration project in Pohang. Hear directly from the project leaders at our upcoming annual conference in Houston.
Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani unveiled his organisation’s future, renewable-based plans at the recent AGM in Mumbai. Along with scaling solar and electrolyser manufacturing, Reliance aims to become a “major producer and exporter” of hydrogen and derivatives, including 3 million tons per year of “renewable hydrogen equivalent production” by 2032.
1PointFive and Enbridge will develop the Pelican Sequestration Hub, anchored by a 25 year offtake agreement between CF Industries and 1PointFive for ~2.3 million tons of CO2 per year from the Blue Point ammonia mega-project.