Japanese trading company Marubeni’s green ammonia project in Salalah Free Zone in Dhofar Governorate, Oman, is slated for commercial launch in the first quarter of 2028.
Marubeni is the lead developer in a multinational consortium that seeks to set up ‘SalalaH2’ – a one million tonnes per annum capacity green ammonia project that will use a combination of solar and wind-based renewable energy to power the multibillion-dollar venture, the report said.
Consortium partners include OQ Alternative Energy, part of Oman’s integrated energy company OQ Group, Germany-based global industrial gases giant Linde, and UAE-based Dutco.
It was reported in October 2021 that SalalaH2 would target the production of up to 1000 tons per day of green ammonia, utilizing OQ’s existing [1,000 Metric Tonnes per Day capacity] ammonia plant in Salalah. It would have an electrolysis facility with a capacity of up to 400 MW to produce green hydrogen, powered by approximately 1-gigawatt (GW) of solar and wind energy, produced either by existing or new facilities.
The renewable power plant would be built by OQ Alternative Energy, according to a September 2021 press statement from Marubeni, which announced the signing of a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for conducting a technical and commercial feasibility study on the project.
In its latest sustainability report, OQ had announced that it has entered into JDAs and Memoranda of Understanding to develop four large green hydrogen projects in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (SEZAD) and the governorates of Al-Wusta and Dhofar. OQ would develop four renewable energy facilities with a total capacity of 30 GW to power the four projects, namely Hyport Duqm, Green Energy Oman (GEO), H2Oman and SalalaH2, according to the report.
