Indian solar power producer ACME Group, Gurugram, Haryana, said on Aug. 23 it has signed a land agreement to set up the previously announced (GM March 26, p. 1) green ammonia project at Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Port of Duqm (Tatweer) in Oman.
“The signing of [this] land reservation agreement will allow us to kick-start pre-construction activities,” said Manoj Upadhyay, ACME Chairman and Founder. “We have hired environmental consultants and owners engineers Black & Veatch, and we plan to start the construction at Oman as soon we commission our first green hydrogen and green ammonia plant at Bikaner in India. The plant in Oman would be developed in phases, and the first phase is likely to be commissioned by end of 2022.”
The Oman facility will produce green hydrogen and ammonia. ACME is now putting it as a $3.5 billion investment over three years. In March, it was listed as a $2.5 billion project. The plant will be an integrated facility using 3 GWp of solar and 0.5 GWp of wind energy to produce 2,400 mt/d of green ammonia, with an annual production of approximately 900,000 mt/y. The facility is being built to export green ammonia to demand centers such as Europe and Asia.
ACME currently has a green hydrogen and ammonia pilot plant under construction in Rajasthan, India.