Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) announced Sept. 1 that its first shipment of low-carbon ammonia left the United Arab Emirates (UAE) bound for Hamburg, Germany. This is the first ever cargo of low-carbon ammonia to be shipped to Germany.
The demonstration cargo will be delivered to Aurubis, a global provider of non-ferrous metals and one of the largest copper recyclers worldwide, which has its headquarters in Hamburg.
Produced by Fertiglobe, a partnership between ADNOC and OCI NV, at its Fertil plant in Abu Dhabi’s Ruwais Industrial Complex, the demonstration cargo is the first of several test cargoes sold to customers in Germany as ADNOC expands its strategic energy partnership across the hydrogen value chain.
The cargo follows a number of similar low-carbon ammonia sales that have been made to customers in Asia. Aurubis plans to utilize the low-carbon ammonia as a feedstock in its wire rod plant, testing its application as an additional, lower-carbon energy source for industrial utilization.
ADNOC said this is another important milestone in the planned scale-up of hydrogen and low-carbon ammonia production capabilities in Abu Dhabi, where it is developing a new world-scale 1 million mt/y low-carbon ammonia plant in the Ruwais Industrial Complex.