Posted on 19 Sep 2023
Dutch green fuel maker OCI Global has signed an agreement with New Fortress Energy (NFE) to offtake green hydrogen from NFE’s ZeroParks starting in 2025, as it looks to scale up its ammonia production.
ZeroParks, NFE’s hydrogen subsidiary, will produce green hydrogen using proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology in Beaumont, Texas and deliver it to OCI’s facilities in the same city. There, it will be converted into green ammonia, helping the firm boost its ammonia production capacity to around 160,000 tonnes/year, Kallanish learns from OCI’s statement.
The first phase of ZeroPark I, NFE’s first green hydrogen project, will go online in 2025, enabling OCI to produce around 80,000 t/y of green ammonia. The production capacity will double to 160,000 t/y when the second phase goes online in 2026.
Nassef Sawiris, OCI’s executive chair, says the agreement marks a new milestone in the Dutch firm’s decarbonisation journey, as it continues to focus on energy transition and hydrogen fuels. “Ammonia and methanol are the logical hydrogen carriers to drive this transition and the coming demand from the transportation sector provides the foundation for our scale-up in production and new technologies,” Sawiris adds.
The partnership comes on the heels of OCI producing its first hydrogen-based green ammonia at the Fertiglobe Egypt Green facility in Egypt earlier this year. OCI is already a successful player in the green methanol space, having signed offtake agreements with shipping giants such as Maersk.
Currently, the Dutch green fuel maker is also developing a large-scale blue ammonia project in Texas, in collaboration with the engineering firm Linde. Slated to begin production in 2025, the facility will also use green hydrogen as feedstock for ammonia production.
Source:Kallanish
