Russia’s Pao Novatek, the country’s largest independent natural gas producer, plans to build a plant in the Arctic with capacity to produce 2.2 million mt/y of ammonia and 130,000 mt/y of hydrogen, Interfax reported on Oct. 15, citing the company. No other details are readily available.
Novatek inked a Memorandum of Cooperation early last month with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry on ammonia, hydrogen, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage.
The Russian gas producer said at the time of the signing on Sept. 2 that the parties intended to mutually support projects in producing and marketing of ammonia and hydrogen, as well as implementing technologies for carbon capture and storage in Russia and Japan.