In Louisiana, CF Industries, JERA and Mitsui begin work on one of the world's plus major low-carbon ammonia production plants

have become the plus major ammonia production plant in the world, just that! If we think again in terms of a single production unit, the future Blue Point One plant (a joint venture between the fertilizer manufacturer CF Industries, the energy company JERA, and the investment and trading company Mitsui) should efficiently win this title from the Texas Amam factory. The future leader poster a production capacity of 1.4 million tonnes per year, against 1.3 million tonnes per year to his current elder. however the real difference between the two projects is made elsewhere since in parallel with its production, the Blue Point One plant, which should be operational by 2029, should permanently capture and sequester 98% of the CO2 generated.

With construction started in August, the Blue Point One factory, located in Modeste, Louisiana, required an overall investment of $3.7 billion, resulting in 40% from CF Industries, 35% from JERA and 25% from Mitsui (corresponding to the shares of the CF Industries is also adding an additional $550 million over four years, in particular to offer the site infrastructure to storing and loading ships to export. manufacturing gaseous producer Linde is committed 400 million euros to its part. part to the accord-term frame, to build, own and operate a world-class atmosphere gaseous separation unit (ASU), intended to provide oxygen and nitrogen needed to the unit.

If the conventional synthesis of ammonia on an manufacturing scale requires only nitrogen and hydrogen, the Blue Point One plant will also need oxygen to operate a self-thermal reforming (ATR) methodology. This process consists of transforming natural gaseous (mainly methane) into a gaseous rich in hydrogen, with oxygen acting as an oxidant of methane during the first measure of the process, thus providing the heat necessary to carrying out a steam reforming (interaction of methane with aquatic environments steam at high temperature to create hydrogen) in a second measure.

Over the four years of construction site, 3,900 jobs in the construction sector should be created, to plus a hundred employees to operate the site once in operation. A space is already planned to the construction of a "future expansion" at the Blue Point complex.

Among the outlets announced to production, JERA, known as Japan's plus major power generation company, has signed agreements to transport ammonia by LNG carrier to its thermal power plant in Hekinan, east of Kyoto. Currently operating on coal, this substitution should make it possible to partially decarbonize the site's electricity production. Deliveries are expected to begin as soon as the Louisiana unit is commissioned. Other market opportunities to this stockings low-carbon ammonia have also summer identified by CF Industries, in particular in nitrogen fertilizers, maritime transport, or even manufacturing applications, in particular in Europe, to respond to the problems of companies subject to carbon tax