Posted on 12 Oct 2023
Australia-based Port Hedland Green Steel has proposed to develop a large-scale downstream iron ore processing facility (IOPF) in the Pilbara region, Kallanish notes.
According to the Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia, the facility is known as the Port Hedland Green Steel Project – Stage 1. The proposed project is located in the Boodarie Strategic Industrial Area (BSIA) approximately 10km southwest of Port Hedland.
The proposal will consist of a pellet plant and a hot briquette iron (HBI) plant, consuming approximately 3-3.5 million tonne/year of iron ore. Most of the pellets will be fed into the hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant to produce approximately 2m t/y of HBI. The remainder of the pellets (approximately 0.7m t/y) will be exported from the Port of Port Hedland.
The proposal also includes hydrogen production and storage facilities for supply to the IOPF, and a nitrogen plant.
The proposal covers an Infrastructure Development Envelope of 466 ha. This is to allow connection within the BSIA to third party suppliers as well as development of access roads and drainage for the proposal. There will be up to 90 ha of clearing within the Infrastructure Development Envelope.
Supporting infrastructure such as HBI and pellet handling and storage facilities, and magnetite concentrate handling facilities, will require the disturbance of up to 300 ha within the 518 ha Plant Development Envelope.
Source:Kallanish
