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Idemitsu receives Emirati

blue ammonia

JAPAN JAPANESE refiner Idemitsu this week said it to have signed ammonia deals with ADNOC,
had received the first shipment of blue ammonia with Inpex and Itochu having all agreed supply
from Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) contracts this year, while various South Korean
following a deal in August. firms have done the same.
The cargo was shipped from the Fertil plant The ammonia was produced using gas feed-
at Abu Dhabi’s Ruwais downstream hub in the stock supplied by ADNOC and CO2 emitted in
west of the emirate and arrived at the 255,000 its production was captured and stored for use
barrel per day (bpd) Yokkaichi refinery in Japan in the company’s enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
on December 9, and has now been transferred efforts.
into an ammonia tank at the facility. Fertiglobe is the largest export-focused nitro-
According to the Japanese firm, the ammonia gen fertiliser platform globally, and the largest
was shipped in liquefied form using an ISO tank producer in MENA with an output capacity of
container. It will be used in the refinery’s boiler 5mn tonnes per year of urea and 1.5mn tpy of
and furnaces to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) merchant ammonia from facilities in Algeria,
emissions. Egypt and the UAE.
The contract was signed between Idemitsu The JV is working with holding company
and Fertiglobe, a joint venture between chemi- ADQ, Japan’s Mitsui and Korea’s GS Energy to
cals specialist OCI and ADNOC that was listed develop a new world-scale 1mn tpy blue ammo-
on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) nia project at TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals
earlier this year. ADNOC was responsible for Zone in Ruwais in addition to the 300,000 tpy of
transporting the ammonia. hydrogen it already produces at the downstream
Idemitsu is one of several Japanese companies hub.™

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