NH3 Clean Energy will collaborate with Woodside to progress the Angel CCS project offshore of the Pilbara in northwestern Australia. Meanwhile, NH3 will work with Oceania Marine Energy and Pilbara Ports to establish an ammonia bunkering service at the Port of Dampier by 2030, targeting iron ore transport between Australia and Asia.
Yara will supply both low-emission fertilizers and decarbonizations services to potato farmers in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. The potatoes will be used in the production of Sabritas potato chips and other snack foods.
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.
CF Industries, JERA and Mitsui & Co. will jointly invest in, own and operate a $4 billion, low-emission ammonia production project in Louisiana, USA.
“Taiwan's first batch of certified blue ammonia” will have an emissions footprint 60-70% lower than conventional ammonia, and Taiwan Fertilizer expects to increase its next delivery to tens of thousands of tons later this year.
For their design of a CCS-based ammonia floating production, storage and offloading unit, MODEC and TOYO Engineering have received approval in principle from the American Bureau of Shipping.
In 2025, the pieces are rapidly assembling to enable and accelerate imports of ammonia energy to Japan. This year, government agency METI is due to announce two lots of key funding, including contracts for difference subsidies and development of import infrastructure. Power generation technologies will be commercialised within the next few years, and more maritime players are joining the push to deploy ammonia fuel in Japanese ships.
In recent months, project developments include completion of pre-FEED work, as well as partnerships to explore options for the delivery of ammonia to both export and bunkering vessels, long-term gas feedstock supply, and shared carbon dioxide pipeline infrastructure.
ExxonMobil and Trammo are in talks which will see the latter offtake 300,000 to 500,000 tons of low-carbon ammonia from the under-development, CCS-based ammonia project in Baytown, Texas.
To explore Trinidad & Tobago' s existing ammonia production capacity and the new imperative to decarbonize, the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago and Argus Media joined Project Features last month. To maintain its market share in key export destinations and meet climate goals, Trinidad & Tobago has a series of decarbonized ammonia projects underway, including the use of wind, solar and gas-based CCS pathways.