KBR announced that its blue ammonia technology will be used by Shell for the Blue Horizons low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia plant in Duqm, Oman. KBR will provide ammonia synthesis loop technology for the 3,000 mt/d ammonia plant to deliver low-carbon intensity ammonia to supply local industrial customers and export blue ammonia overseas.
The project will contribute to Oman’s low-carbon targets in their Vision 2040 plan. Under the Vision 2040 targets, the country wants to produce one million mt/y of renewable hydrogen by 2030 and increase to up to 8.5 million mt/y by 2050.
Houston-based KBR has licensed, engineered, or constructed nearly 260 grassroots ammonia plants worldwide. It recently announced that it will provide license, engineering design, and Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) support services to Fortescue’s green ammonia plant that will be built in Norway (GM April 26, p. 26).