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McDermott, KBR sign ammonia licensing agreement
AMMONIA
ENERGY services specialist McDermott Inter- national announced the signing of a deal this week that will see it provide “integrated solu- tions” for fellow services firm KBR’s proprietary ammonia technologies.
The two US companies will target the grow- ing ammonia market by combining KBR’s tech- nology with McDermott’s “global execution capabilities and fabrication and modularisation expertise.”
In a statement accompanying the announce- ment, Tareq Kawash, McDermott’s senior vice president for onshore, said: “This agreement ena- bles us to offer customers an integrated approach for low-carbon ammonia projects by combining KBR’s best-in-class ammonia technology with our global project delivery know-how, low-car- bon execution approach and leadership in ammonia storage solutions.”
He added: “This technology partnership is an important addition to our growing energy transition portfolio and strengthens our con- cept-to-completion capabilities.”
Meanwhile, KBR’s senior vice president for global sales, Aman Ahmad, said: “This agree- ment will enable KBR and McDermott to
leverage each other’s strengths to deliver excep- tional value to our clients as they scale and accel- eratetheirenergytransitioninitiatives.”Thetwo companies will work together to evaluate oppor- tunities to deliver modular “execution concepts” for green and blue ammonia projects.
Significant investments are being made in ammonia projects around the world as pro- ducers and developers covet its properties as a hydrogen carrier for transportation.
Given the nascent nature of the sector, other options are also being considered, with, for exam- ple, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) signing up to a joint study with Japan’s Mitsui and its biggest refiner ENEOS for the development of a 200,000 tonne per year (tpy) blue hydrogen supply chain connecting the two countries, lev- eraging methylcyclohexane (MCH) as a carrier.
Meanwhile, in March last year, a deal was agreed that would see South Korea’s Hyundai Oilbank import LPG from Saudi Aramco, which would be converted to hydrogen for use in des- ulphurisation facilities and for fuelling vehicles.
The Korean company will capture the emitted CO2 and re-export it back to Aramco for use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR).™
Source: Aramco
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