Oman’s first ammonia plant project will most likely be launched by mid-2025. The project is presently being developed by the Indian firm ACME in Duqm Particular Financial Zone.
Syed Hussain Naqvi, Chief Technology Officer at ACME, informed that the Duqm Project will be among the first green ammonia projects when this first phase becomes operational in the next couple of years.
Speaking at the webinar by Ammonia Vitality Affiliation, which promotes the usage of ammonia as a supply for sustainable power, Naqvi, said an ACME-led special purpose vehicle named `Green Hydrogen & Chemicals SPC, is currently developing the facility at Duqm. He further said, ”Our first commercial-scale facility is developing in Duqm SEZ, the place we can produce 1.2 million tons of inexperienced ammonia every year. We have now due to this fact acquired roughly 92 sq. Km of land in Duqm.”
Sharing further details, he informed, “We’re licensed by TUV Rheinland and have environmental clearances and constructing permits. We have now additionally positioned orders with long-lead objects such because the ammonia loop (with the US-based engineering firm KBR), the ammonia storing facility with the German industrial engineering gaint ThyssenKrupp and others.”
The concern official revealed that total funding of $6 billion is expected for the two-phase growth of 1.2 million tonnes of ammonia per annum. Labour camps are being already set up and the primary section of the undertaking shall be operational between December 2024 to June 2025.
The project will utilise photo voltaic photovoltaic panels with a peak capacity of 486 MWp to energise a 320-MW electrolyser. The Hydrogen produced will then be dispatched using the Haber-Bosch circuit and will be transformed into ammonia. The section one manufacturing of ammonia shall be around 100,000 tonnes yearly. The project will also have a desalination facility with a capacity of seven million litres per day, a hydrogen storage plant of 60 tonnes, and storage services for 30,000 tons of ammonia.
Noted Naqvi, “Our vision is to reach abput 10 million tonnes of green molecule production in terms of green ammonia or its equivalent by 2030-2032.”
The other projects in the pipeline will be coming up with the capacity of 1.1 mtpa in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Odisha and another with 2.1 mtpa capacity in Egypt.
