Middle East
10 June 2026
Jordan signs $1 bln green ammonia deal at Aqaba
Written by Natalie Noor-Drugan
Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has signed a $1 billion investment agreement with Jordan Green Ammonia (JGA) for the country’s first utility scale green ammonia and hydrogen project in Aqaba, positioning the port city as a future export hub for low carbon nitrogen products. The project, led by Poland’s Hynfra with UAE based Fidelity Group, was approved by cabinet earlier this month and formally signed in Amman in the presence of Prime Minister Jafar Hassan.
Off grid solar to ammonia complex
The Aqaba facility will be an off grid, vertically integrated installation built near the port and independent of Jordan’s national power grid. Hynfra says the project will be powered by about 550 MW of dedicated solar capacity backed by 500 MWh of energy storage, feeding electrolysers to produce green hydrogen that is then converted to ammonia on site.
100,000 t/y for export markets
Design capacity is around 100,000 t/y of green ammonia, aimed mainly at export customers in European and Asian markets looking to cut embedded emissions in fertilizer and industrial supply chains. The project is expected to avoid roughly 200,000 t/y of CO₂ emissions once operational, creating a new source of low carbon ammonia for producers and traders.
Topsoe FEED and 2030 start up
In March, Danish firm Topsoe signed a front end engineering and design contract covering its ModuLite based ammonia synthesis technology, which will convert the site’s green hydrogen into ammonia. Financial close is targeted for 2027, with commercial operations scheduled to begin in 2030, giving fertilizer buyers a medium term line of sight on new green volumes from the Middle East.
Jordan doubles down on ammonia
The deal is part of a wider push by Jordan into green hydrogen to ammonia value chains. According to industry data cited by the ministry, 13 memoranda of understanding have already been signed for green hydrogen projects, all but one focused on ammonia production, signalling a strategic bet on ammonia as the main offtake route.
