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Trinidad & Tobago: future production pathways for the world’s largest ammonia exporter

Kevin Rouwenhorst February 11, 2025

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.

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FertigHy: reducing dependence on fossil-based fertilizers in Europe

Julian Atchison

Meet FertigHy, a pan-European consortium that will build, own, and operate low-carbon fertilizer plants across the continent, starting with its first facility in northern France. Explore plans for the 500,000 tons per year facility, which will feature Stamicarbon technology.

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Offshore renewable ammonia production on the horizon

Geofrey Njovu January 28, 2025

SwitcH2 Offshore and CorPower Ocean will develop a 300,000 tons per year offshore renewable ammonia production facility in Portugal, expected to become operational by 2029. Two separate partnerships - Samsung Heavy Industries & Lloyd’s Register, and MISC & Gentari - are also exploring similar floating production projects.

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Pathways to electrolysis success for USA, Australia

Julian Atchison December 16, 2024

In order to achieve the aggressive Hydrogen Shot initiative goal of $1/kg production cost by 2030, the US Department of Energy sets out a series of performance and capital cost targets for established and lower-TRL electrolyser technologies. Meanwhile, Australia's national science agency CSIRO projects that Australia’s hydrogen electrolyser manufacturing sector could generate AU$1.7 billion in revenue annually by 2050.

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RP Global: new ammonia mega-project in Argentina

Julian Atchison December 15, 2024

In the first stage of Project Gaucho, 3 GW of electrolysers will be powered by a 4.2 GW wind farm, leading to the production of up to 1.7 million tons of ammonia per year. RP Global and German development agency GIZ will develop the project, supported by an official German government program for ramping up the nascent hydrogen industry.

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Aker, VNG sign term sheet for renewable ammonia from Norway

Julian Atchison December 15, 2024

VNG will purchase up to 150,000 tons per year of renewable ammonia from 2029, supplying it directly to its German customers or cracking it on arrival and supplying hydrogen.

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Project Dhakla: one million tons per year from Morocco

Julian Atchison December 12, 2024

UAE-Moroccan developer Dahamco is planning a $25 billion, multi-million ton per year renewable ammonia project at the Port of Dhakla on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. The first phase will feature an investment of $4 billion and produce nearly one million tons of ammonia per year.

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Renewable hydrogen and ammonia for Iberian, European and global markets

Kevin Rouwenhorst December 11, 2024

In our November episode of Project Features, we explored the MadoquaPower2X renewable ammonia project in Sines, southern Portugal. 300,000 tons per year of RFNBO-compliant ammonia will be produced for export to Rotterdam and Duisburg from 2028, focused on marine fuel and fertilizer markets in Europe.

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Namibia Green Industrialisation Blueprint

Geofrey Njovu December 09, 2024

We explore Namibia’s vision of a sprawling hydrogen ecosystem. The country plans to leverage its competitive wind and solar energy potential and strategic coastal location to produce electrolytic hydrogen and ammonia for the global market. We also highlight some of the key projects and partnerships already underway, and some key bottlenecks that must be overcome.

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Updates from Morocco: renewable ammonia value chain expansion

Geofrey Njovu December 02, 2024

TotalEnergies, Eren, CIP and A.P. Moller have launched a large-scale renewable energy project which will feature solar-powered electrolytic hydrogen and ammonia production in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region near the Atlantic coast in Morocco. State-owned fertiliser giant OCP Group has also signed agreements with Engie, Bpifrance and the French Development Agency to develop renewable projects and sustainable agriculture in Morocco.