Fertiglobe, the Middle Eastern joint venture partnership between OCI NV, Amsterdam, and Abu Dhabi’s state-energy company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Corp. (ADNOC), has signed a collaboration agreement with Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy company Masdar and France’s Engie SA to study the co-development of a green hydrogen facility to supply Fertiglobe’s ammonia production plants at Al Ruwais in the UAE.
A capacity of as much as 200 megawatts (MW) is being considered for the proposed green hydrogen facility, with the project targeted to be operational by 2025, OCI said in a Jan. 19 statement announcing the collaboration agreement.
The three parties will study the development, design, financing and procurement, construction, operation, and maintenance of “an industrial-scale and globally cost-competitive” green hydrogen facility in Al Ruwais to be installed near Fertiglobe’s ammonia production plants.
“The project aims to strengthen Fertiglobe’s decarbonization roadmap, strengthening the company’s position as a global front-runner in green ammonia production by 2025 in the UAE,” said OCI.
This new project follows the announcement in late November of Fertiglobe’s 100 MW electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen as a feedstock for green ammonia in Egypt (GM Nov. 24, 2021).
The project, a partnership between Fertiglobe and Norway-based renewable power producer Scatec ASA and Egypt’s Sovereign Fund, plans to develop the electrolyzer to produce up to 90,000 mt/y of green ammonia at EBIC in Ain Sokhna (GM Oct. 15, 2021).