Tag: Blue ammonia

CF Industries has made its first shipment of certified low-carbon ammonia to Europe.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has successfully delivered compressor trains for the Beaumont ammonia project in Texas.

Ammonia is poised to grow beyond fertilizers into energy transition roles, with lowcarbon pathways via blue ammonia and green ammonia, supported by existing logistics and market structures. To support this transition, Stamicarbon is expanding its NX STAMI™ ammonia technologies – with a mediumpressure design for large, CCUSintegrated plants and a highpressure design for small/ medium renewable projects – demonstrating efficiency, reliability, and cost advantages.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor International Corporation says that it has successfully delivered syngas and ammonia refrigeration compressor trains for the Beaumont New Ammonia Project in Beaumont, Texas. This facility, originally developed by OCI Global as the OCI Clean Ammonia project, now owned by Woodside Energy, will be the first large-scale, lower-carbon greenfield ammonia facility in the world.

Ammonia producer CF Industries says that it has shipped its first cargo of low-carbon ammonia from its Donaldsonville, Louisiana facility. The 23,500 tonne shipment was purchased by commodities specialist Trafigura to be used in Antwerp, Belgium by engineering materials firm Envalior in the production of low-carbon caprolactam.

Blue ammonia – ammonia produced from fossil hydrogen with carbon capture and storage (CCS) – offers a cheaper alternative than green ammonia for low carbon supply in the short term, and is more suited to retrofits.

BASF and Yara International ASA say that they have jointly decided to discontinue their project to develop a 1.4 million t/a low-carbon ammonia production facility with carbon capture and storage in the US Gulf Coast region. The companies say that this decision reflects their “commitment to focus on initiatives with the highest potential to achieve their respective value creation goals.” Yara will continue its ammonia strategy as previously communicated, evaluating and maturing equity investment opportunities in US ammonia to determine the optimal project portfolio.

The carbon dioxide dehydration and compression unit at CF's production complex at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, is ready to start up.

Suiso, a South African company specialising in blue ammonia production, is set to invest $1.7 billion in a coal-to-fertiliser facility in Kriel, Mpumalanga in the east of South Africa. The proposal is for a 1.5 million t/a ‘blue’ ammonia-urea plant which will replace South Africa’s annual imports of 1.2 million t/a of urea, as well as producing 235,000 t/a of blue methanol for fuels, using advanced decarbonisation and carbon capture technologies. Suiso is partnering with Sinopec Ningbo Engineering, Stamicarbon, and ETG – the latter will distribute Suiso’s fertilisers across Africa, supporting local agriculture and long-term food security.

Stamicarbon is pioneering future-proof solutions for low-carbon production with two ammonia process designs.