Recently, the Spanish engineering firm Técnicas Reunidas and the Sinopec consortium secured a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for a large-scale green hydrogen-to-ammonia project in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
Commissioned by ACWA Power, the project is located in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, with an electrolysis capacity of 4 GW. It can produce 400,000 mt of green hydrogen annually, which will be converted into green ammonia for export.
The construction scope of the plant also includes facilities for converting hydrogen into green ammonia, as well as seawater desalination infrastructure and an export terminal, aiming to achieve commercial operation by 2030.
It is reported that the FEED contract covers the engineering design phase, spanning 10 months. After that, Técnicas Reunidas and the Sinopec consortium will submit a proposal worth billions of euros for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC).
The project is planned to be put into use by 2030, further enhancing Saudi Arabia's renewable hydrogen export capacity and positioning it as a leading global supplier of green ammonia for the industrial decarbonization and power generation markets.
It is understood that the project developer, ACWA Power, announced earlier this month that it had signed a joint development agreement with its German partner EnBW (Energie Baden-Württemberg AG) to collaborate on the first phase of the Yanbu Green Hydrogen Hub, which is planned to be put into commercial operation by 2030.
