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ExxonMobil’s Slagen terminal to become a low-emissions hub
ExxonMobil, Grieg Edge, North Ammonia, and GreenH will explore options to transform Exxon’s existing Slagen terminal into a production & distribution hub for renewable ammonia and hydrogen maritime fuels. The group has identified the potential to produce 200,000 tonnes of electrolytic hydrogen production per year at the site, as well as distributing 100,000 tonnes per year of renewable ammonia. Exxon’s wider plans for low-carbon ammonia also include two large-scale production hubs (one each in the US and the UK).
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RePowerEU: supporting the full switch of existing hydrogen production to renewables
The European Commission has announced its latest plan to reduce the EU’s dependence on fossil imports. RePowerEU will encourage a full switch from fossil-based hydrogen to renewable hydrogen, based on the use of carbon contracts for difference. A hydrogen utilisation target of 20 million tonnes per year has also been set, composed of 10 million tonnes from domestic production and 10 million tonnes of imports. Of these imports, the EU has also forecast 4 million tonnes will be in the form of hydrogen-as-ammonia. The new plan marks a significant increase in ambition from the Fit-for-55 package released in July 2021.
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Photocatalytic Decomposition of Ammonia
In its recently released 6th assessment report, the International Panel on Climate Change unequivocally stated that human activity is the primary driver of observed global warming effects over the past 150 years. Broad alignment with this assertion by the public and private sectors has been the driving force behind decarbonization efforts and various net-zero emissions goals. To date, decarbonization has focused on increasing renewable power capacity and electrification of mobility with few solutions provided for “hard-to-abate” sectors (transport, shipping, aviation, and heavy industry (cement, steel, and chemicals)) that are reliant on inexpensive petrochemicals as fuels / feedstocks and contribute nearly…
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IEA's latest Global Hydrogen Review includes fuel ammonia
The Global Hydrogen Review is an annual publication by the International Energy Agency to track progress in hydrogen production and demand. And - for the first time ever - the publication includes ammonia in its break down of current & future hydrogen markets, including the use of ammonia as a maritime fuel.
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UK publishes national Hydrogen Strategy
The UK government has launched its vision for a society-wide hydrogen economy, with the first phase to entail 5 GW of low-carbon hydrogen production by 2030. Of huge interest to our readers here at Ammonia Energy are the explicit references in the report to the important future role of ammonia as: i) a maritime fuel, ii) a peaking power fuel for gas turbines, and iii) an export vector.
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Namibia looks towards its first green mega-project
As we reported earlier this March, Namibian President Hage Geingob announced his government is looking to develop and implement national green hydrogen and green ammonia strategies as part of an economy-wide "prosperity" initiative. In an interview with CNBCAfrica this week, Presidential Advisor on Economy James Mnyupe added some more updates.
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The Ammonia Wrap: no major obstacles for NoGAPS success and more
Welcome to the Ammonia Wrap: a summary of all the latest announcements, news items and publications about ammonia energy. This week: latest report from NoGAPS, Viking Energy project takes another step, more collaborations for Yara, thyssenkrupp to invest in cracking R&D, investment in clean hydrogen technology in the USA, world-first visualisation of ammonia combustion in a spark-ignition engine and our numbers of the week.