Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. said it has completed the shipment of the first blue ammonia from the UAE to Japan. The ammonia was sold by Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) in partnership with Fertiglobe, the joint-venture partnership between ADNOC and Amsterdam-based OCI NV, and was delivered to Showa Yokkaichi Sekiyu Co. Ltd.’s Yokkaichi refinery.
The blue ammonia was transported in ISO-tank containers.
Fertiglobe is producing the blue ammonia at the Fertil plant in the Ruwais Industrial Complex in Abu Dhabi for delivery to ADNOC’s customers in Japan, and forms part of a planned scale-up of blue ammonia production capabilities in Abu Dhabi, which includes a low-cost debottlenecking program at the Fertil plant (GM Aug. 6, p. 1).