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Strike launches WA petchem development
AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN junior Strike Energy is progress- While Greater Erregulla is to be the “back-
ing with an ammonia and urea manufacturing bone” of Project Haber, with the Perth Basin
facility development in Western Australia, which resources described as a “key enabler” for the
will use natural gas supplied from the company’s urea project, Strike aims to supplant gas with
onshore Greater Erregulla project. green hydrogen over the development’s lifecycle.
Strike said on January 11 that it had com- To this end, Project Haber includes the
pleted feasibility studies with international oil construction of a 10-MW hydrogen electro-
and gas services provider TechnipFMC on a lyser, which will enable Strike to generate green
1.4mn tonne per year (tpy) urea production hydrogen from local wind energy sources. This
facility. is expected to represent around 2% of Project
In addition, Strike has also been awarded an Haber’s initial hydrogen consumption.
option for a long-term lease over a 60-hectare The company is also looking to tap local
(600,000-square metre) site in the Narngulu renewable projects to supply the facility with
Industrial Estate, which is adjacent to the port power, thereby reducing the amount of fuel gas
of Geraldton and has direct access to rail and consumption.
road networks. The estate is also located close to Strike said it had opened talks with several
Greater Erregulla, which lies in the Perth Basin. parties over potential offtake and equity deals
The downstream project – dubbed Project and that it intended to launch a formal offtake
Haber – will include an 800,000 tpy ammonia tender for local and international consumers in
train, 300,000 tpy of onsite urea storage, power, the first quarter. The company aims to secure
utilities and stream generation, railway sidings offtake agreements for up to 80% of the project’s
for transport, and a 120-km gas pipeline from ammonia production before entering into front-
the Perth Basin. end engineering. Strike also expects to begin
Project Haber, which is estimated to cost marketing an equity stake in the project by the
around $1.8bn and have a useful life of 20-30 end of this year, while aiming to retain a 30%
years, is expect to consume more than 628 PJ carried stake. Project Haber’s annual revenue
(16.36bn cubic metres) of Greater Erregulla’s is projected to reach AUD540-700mn ($417.8-
production over 20 years. 541.6mn) based on current urea prices.
RENEWABLES
RENEWABLES
Siemens Gamesa wins two
onshore wind orders in Vietnam
VIETNAM SIEMENS Gamesa in partnership with SEP- Siemens Gamesa has been expanding in
EC-China Energy has won two turbine orders the Asia-Pacific region since the 1980s and has
totalling 217 MW with Hanbaram Wind Power installed more than 8.6 GW of onshore turbines
in Vietnam. in China, Pakistan, Japan, South Korea, Viet-
The 117-MW Hanbaram project in Ninh nam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Aus-
Thuan Province will feature 29 units of the 4.X tralia and New Zealand.
platform with 145-metre rotors, while the 100- The company also completed the installation
MW Hung Hai plant in Gia Lai Province will of Taiwan’s first offshore wind power project in
comprise 25 similar turbines. Both projects are 2019 (128 MW) and has won close to 2 GW of
expected to be commissioned in the third quar- firm orders for offshore wind.
ter of 2021. Vietnam’s feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme has sup-
Siemens Gamesa CEO for onshore business ported the wind industry, enabling accelerated
in the Asia-Pacific region, Paulo Soares, said: growth in the past two years, during which Sie-
“With a strong and growing team in Vietnam, mens Gamesa has emerged as one of the leading
we are well positioned and firmly committed renewables players in the country.
to bringing clean energy to support economic “We look forward to a constructive mech-
growth and ease power shortage in Vietnam. anism to support the continued growth in the
Green recovery has been put at the centre of wind industry when the current FiT expires in
many countries’ post COVID-19 stimulus November 2021,” said Soares. The Vietnamese
packages. A continued investment in wind and government is increasing its stake in renewable
renewable energy technologies is equally critical energies to 15-20% of its total energy output by
to energy security as well as economic growth 2030
and job creation in Vietnam.”
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