Ammonia

The U.S. Gulf Coast has seen a bevy of potential deals and partnerships as large Asian natural gas buyers eye using gas-derivative, low-carbon fuels to help meet ambitious climate goals. Specifically, Japanese and South Korean plans to lean on ammonia and hydrogen made from natural gas to decarbonize existing infrastructure are raising the interest of…

Any restrictions or outright bans on natural gas would have severe implications for the U.S. agricultural sector and the nation’s food supply, the American Gas Association (AGA) warned in a study released Wednesday.  As policymakers across the world weigh the role of fossil fuels in the energy transition and more localities across the United States…

CF Industries Holdings Inc., which uses natural gas in its hydrogen and nitrogen manufacturing, agreed to pay nearly $1.7 billion for the Incitec Pivot Ltd. (IPL) ammonia production complex in Waggaman, LA. The IPL facility has a nameplate capacity of 880,000 tons/year of ammonia, CF noted.  The companies plan to allocate around $425 million of…

Amogy, a Brooklyn-based startup company, has found a way to use ammonia to power the world’s first zero-emissions tugboat. This announcement comes after the company successfully powered a semi-truck. In an interview with NGI, CEO Seonghoon Woo talked about how using ammonia could decarbonize transportation. “Beyond its incredible energy density and liquid phase at an…

German utility RWE AG has joined a partnership to study producing and exporting ammonia with natural gas in the United States as it plans future expansions for its LNG import facilities in Germany. RWE, Lotte Chemical Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. have jointly agreed to explore development of a project at the Port of Corpus Christi…

In a step to support decarbonization, Linde plc signed a long-term contract to supply low-carbon hydrogen and nitrogen to OCI NV’s planned blue ammonia plant southeast of Houston.  OCI, based in the Netherlands, is one of the world’s largest fertilizer manufacturers. It launched the natural gas-fueled blue ammonia project, to be based in Beaumont, in…

Jera Co. Inc., Japan’s leading power producer and one of the world’s top buyers of LNG, has signed two tentative agreements for ammonia supply that include exploring plans for a Gulf Coast production facility fed by low-carbon natural gas. Jera disclosed Monday memorandums of understanding (MOU) with a unit of Yara International ASA and CF…

California Resources Corp. (CRC) kicked off 2023 with an agreement to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) from Grannus LLC’s blue ammonia and hydrogen project. The Carbon Dioxide Management Agreement (CDMA) by CRC subsidiary Carbon Terravault Holdings LLC (CTV) stipulates that it would provide infield transportation to offtake CO2 produced from the Grannus project. The project is…

Air Liquide SA, Chevron Corp., LyondellBasell and Uniper SE could “potentially advance” a hydrogen and ammonia facility on the Gulf Coast to support global industrial decarbonization. Neither a timeline to proceed, site location or estimated costs were provided. However, the evaluation would “cover the end-to-end energy value chain, utilizing each participant’s technical expertise in production,…