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The AUD5mn front-end engineering
design study for the Port Pirie green hydrogen
project, jointly funded by Trafigura and
the South Australian State Government,
will commence immediately, with a final
investment decision to be made by the
end of 2022. If approved, construction will
commence in 2023.
At an estimated design and construction
cost of AU$750mn, if approved, the Project is
to be developed in a phased manner, initially
producing 20 tonnes per day (tpd) of green
and Siemens Energy take a comprehensive The project covers an area of 8,400 square hydrogen for export in the form of green
approach to development by leveraging km and is situated around 20 km from the ammonia. The full-scale plant will produce
global relationships and experience to deliver Chinese-Mongolian border and close to 100tpd of green hydrogen at full capacity from
turnkey solutions.” the northern China gas transmission and a 440MW electrolyser, enabling it to meet
ENERGY CAPITAL VIETNAM, December 16, distribution network. both export and domestic supply needs. The
2021 Telmen is an unlisted Australian company oxygen created in the production of hydrogen
that owns 100% of Telmen Resource, a will be utilised by the Nyrstar Port Pirie
Mongolian incorporated entity, which in smelter.
EAST ASIA turn holds a 100% interest in the Gurvantes The project is planned to be integrated into
project. Nyrstar Australia’s metals recovery smelter
Akastor: HMH awarded drilling programme at the Gurvantes project at Port Pirie, using existing infrastructure
Telmen expects to start a high-impact
to accelerate production of green hydrogen
pressure control system for in 1Q22, Tamaska said. The first phase of compared to developing a project on a new
the exploration programme will include the
greenfield site. The Project will form the
GMGS drillship drilling of at least four fully tested cored holes cornerstone of a new green hydrogen precinct
in Port Pirie that will benefit local businesses
where data will be gathered to confirm coal
Akastor’s 50% owned affiliate HMH has been thickness, gas contents, gas composition and and support the decarbonisation of transport
awarded the contract to deliver a pressure permeability. and industry.
control system to Guangzhou Marine The exploration programme is majority Trafigura will source 100% renewable
Geological Survey (GMGS). The system will funded via a farmout agreement between energy to provide the electricity needed to
comprise of a blowout preventer (BOP) stack, Telmen and Talon Energy, another Sydney- run the Project’s electrolyser, which will also
including the new SeaONYX V.2 control listed company. The agreement requires Talon contribute to decarbonising the existing
system, a SeaPrime Pod control system, PR2 to spend $4.65mn to earn a 33% working smelter’s power supply.
H4 Connectors, as well as an 8,202 foot (2,500 interest in the production sharing contract. Trafigura General Manager – Australia,
metre) riser package. Telmen will remain as the operator under the Tim Rogers said that the company was
The total contract value is approximately terms of the farmout agreement. increasing its global presence in the fast-
$77mn and follows up on the contract A maiden independent prospective evolving renewable energy sector, and that
awarded by GMGS to HMH’s subsidiary resource assessment was completed in August the project created a unique opportunity for
entity MHWirth AS on September 2, 2021 for this year by NSAI. It delivered a risked best the Spencer Gulf to participate in the growth
the delivery of a topside drilling equipment case resource of 5.96 trillion cubic feet, of a new energy industry, creating the next
package worth approximately $83mn. Tamaska said. generation of jobs for local communities.
Reference is made to press release dated TRAFIGURA GROUP, December 09, 2021
September 2, 2021.
The combined scope of these contracts will Sembcorp Marine to
be installed onboard a drillship operated by OCEANIA
GMGS with an expected delivery date around support Bechtel in the
December 2023. Planned new green
AKASTOR, December 14, 2021 construction of gas
Tamaska Oil and Gas hydrogen project at Port processing train for Pluto
Pirie, South Australia
acquires Mongolian coal- Trafigura Group, one of the world’s largest Train 2 project

bed methane project physical commodity trading companies, Sembcorp Marine, through its wholly owned
subsidiary, Sembcorp Marine Offshore
Nyrstar, a global multi-metals manufacturing
Sydney-listed Tamaska Oil and Gas has signed business and the State Government of South Platforms (SMOP), has entered into a contract
an agreement to acquire Telmen Energy, Australia today announced a joint investment with Bechtel Overseas Corporation for
which holds a 100% interest in the Gurvantes to progress plans to construct a commercial module assembly of the second LNG train to
XXXV coal-bed methane (CBM) project in scale green hydrogen manufacturing facility in be constructed at the Pluto LNG project.
Mongolia, Tamaska said on December 16. Port Pirie, a regional city north of Adelaide. Bechtel and SMOP will form an integrated

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