Wärtsilä Gas Solutions, part of technology group Wärtsilä, and Höegh Evi, a global provider of marine energy infrastructure, have successfully completed development of the world’s first floating ammonia-to-hydrogen cracker. This technology enables floating import terminals to produce hydrogen at industrial-scale volumes from transported ammonia. The project was announced in April... Read more →

Amogy, a provider of ammonia-to-power solutions, announced the first pilot plant deployment of its advanced ammonia cracking catalyst with JGC Holdings Corporation (JGC), a global engineering company headquartered in Japan. This agreement is a key component of a pilot project designed to advance large-scale ammonia cracking technology for low-carbon hydrogen... Read more →

CMB.TECH has signed an agreement with Fortescue to charter a new ammonia-powered vessel. This 210,000-dwt ammonia-powered Newcastlemax will feature a dual fuel engine and is expected to be delivered by the end of 2026. The vessel is part of CMB.TECH’s series of large dry bulk carriers currently on order at... Read more →

MAN Energy Solutions signed a framework agreement with COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (CHI) regarding their future cooperation on decarbonization retrofit projects. The new framework agreement provides for the retrofitting of existing ships to operation on new alternative fuels such as methane, methanol and ammonia—all fuels that can be... Read more →

Alfa Laval has signed its first contract for the ammonia fuel supply system, FCM Ammonia, for the maritime industry. The FCM Ammonia will be installed onboard seven LPG/ammonia carriers for Tianjin Southwest Maritime. Alfa Laval has achieved a significant milestone by securing the contract for the ammonia fuel supply system,... Read more →

Swiss marine power company WinGD has confirmed key parameters for its X-DF-A ammonia-fueled engine design after full-load testing at its Engine Research and Innovation Centre in Winterthur, Switzerland. The performance and emission measurements deliver timely assurance as the first users prepare their vessels and auxiliary systems for ammonia fuel. The... Read more →

North Ammonia, a developer of RFNBO (Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin) ammonia facilities in Norway, and Höegh Evi, a global leader in marine energy infrastructure, signed an agreement to explore a value chain for supplying hydrogen to European industrial users using green ammonia produced in Norway. North Ammonia and Höegh... Read more →

MITSUI E&S has begun testing of the world’s first commercial, two-stroke, dual-fuel ammonia engine. The MAN B&W 7S60ME-LGIA (-Liquid Gas Injection Ammonia) Mk 10.5 prototype engine began its ammonia fuel test-run at MITSUI E&S’ Tamano Factory in Japan. The 60-bore engine will eventually be installed aboard a 200,000-dwt bulk carrier... Read more →

Yara Clean Ammonia, the world’s largest ammonia distributor, signed a time-charter contract with Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) for an ammonia-fueled medium gas carrier (AFMGC) to be delivered in November 2026. Since 2021, Yara Clean Ammonia and NYK have jointly studied the practical application of an ammonia-fueled ammonia gas carrier,... Read more →

MAN Energy Solutions reports that its ME-LGIA (-Liquid Gas Injection Ammonia) engine, currently undergoing testing at its Research Center Copenhagen (RCC) facility, has run at 100% engine load for the first time. We began full-scale testing in November 2024 and have since proceeded in a cautious and safety-first way. We... Read more →

MODEC and Toyo Engineering have jointly obtained an Approval in Principle (AiP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for a Blue Ammonia Floating Production Storage and Offloading that will produce ammonia from the gas supplied by Oil & Gas FPSO located nearby. This Blue Ammonia FPSO is intended to... Read more →

Trammo and Exxon Mobil have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) to advance discussions for Trammo’s long-term offtake of 300,000 to 500,000 tonnes of low-carbon ammonia per year from ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas facility. The facility is expected to produce virtually carbon-free hydrogen—with approximately 98% of CO2 removed—and will use this... Read more →

Avina Clean Hydrogen released a 3D virtual tour of its upcoming state-of-the-art 800,000 MTPA Clean Ammonia Facility, in the Texas Gulf Coast. The vide offers a detailed preview of the first large-scale clean ammonia facility planned to be built in the United States. The virtual tour takes viewers through the... Read more →

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has developed what it says it the world’s first engine capable of directly injecting ammonia into the combustion chamber at high pressure, in collaboration with the Electrification Engineering Center of... Read more →

A team of researchers at MIT has developed an innovative way of making ammonia without the usual fossil-fuel-powered chemical plants that require high heat and pressure. Instead, they have found a way to use the Earth itself as a geochemical reactor, producing ammonia underground. The processes uses Earth’s naturally occurring... Read more →

Plug Power announced a landmark purchase agreement with Allied Green Ammonia (AGA). This agreement will see Plug supplying an impressive three gigawatts (GW) of electrolyzer capacity to AGA’s green hydrogen-to-ammonia plant, currently under development in Australia. AGA will install a 4.5 GW solar plant to power the Plug electrolyzers with... Read more →

A research team from the University of Nottingham's School of Chemistry, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham and Cardiff University, has created a catalyst for hydrogen generation from ammonia that becomes more active with time. The novel material consists of nanosized ruthenium (Ru) clusters anchored on graphitized carbon. These... Read more →

A consortium led by H2 Global Energy signed an MOU agreement with the Tunisian government to develop a $6-billion green hydrogen and green ammonia project. Tunisia is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a part of the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by Algeria to the west and... Read more →

Greenstat Hydrogen India (GHI), a developer of green hydrogen and its derivatives, and H2Carrier, a pioneer in floating green ammonia production solutions, signed of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development and deployment of green hydrogen and ammonia projects located in India and Sri Lanka. Under the MoU,... Read more →

MAN Energy Solutions announced that the development of its ME-LGIA (Liquid Gas Injection Ammonia) engine has entered a new phase with the commencement of testing of a full-scale, two-stroke engine running on ammonia at its RCC (Research Centre Copenhagen). (Earlier post.) Having already completed more than 12 months of testing... Read more →

Lloyd’s Register (LR) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for the joint development of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) system for green ammonia.  The FPSO process has been widely used in the oil and gas industries, but its application for ammonia is relatively... Read more →

Topsoe has signed an agreement with developer Hygenco to provide its dynamic ammonia technology for Hygenco’s upcoming green ammonia plant in Gopalpur, Odisha, India. Hygenco will utilize Topsoe’s advanced dynamic green ammonia technology, allowing for flexible and efficient operations while optimizing overall performance. This technology will support Hygenco’s ambition of... Read more →

A team of researchers from West Virginia University (WVU) investigated the potential for fueling neat ammonia to a single-cylinder heavy-duty four-stroke research diesel engine converted to natural gas spark ignition operation. A paper on their findings is published in the journal Fuel. Although ammonia, as a non-carbon fuel, is seen... Read more →

Abraxas Power, an energy transition developer, and EDF Group entered into strategic development agreements jointly to develop the Exploits Valley Renewable Energy Corporation (EVREC) green hydrogen and ammonia project in Central Newfoundland. EVREC is a Power-to-X (P2X) project that is expected to include up to 3+ gigawatts (GW) of onshore... Read more →

A team of researchers with Prof. Laura Nousch from the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden has developed a demonstrator based on a high-temperature fuel cell stack (solid oxide fuel cell, SOFC) that can use ammonia to generate electricity directly and with high efficiency. Electricity and... Read more →

Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) have demonstrated that the use of nanosecond pulse transient plasma enables stable combustion of ammonia in an internal combustion engine (i.e., a modified natural gas engine) over a wide range of equivalence ratios from ϕ = 0.78 to ϕ = 1.23. A... Read more →

The government of the Kingdom of Morocco and TE H2, along with its partners, have signed a Preliminary Contract for Land Reservation for the Chbika project. This agreement will allow TE H2, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and the EREN Group, together with the two Danish companies, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners... Read more →

Swiss marine power company WinGD has introduced an option for its X-DF-A ammonia-fueled engines to be delivered capable of running on liquified petroleum gas (LPG). The ‘pre-fit’ solution will be of particular interest to vessels under construction for the anticipated global trade in ammonia, which will also be capable of... Read more →

EverWind Fuels has been awarded $22.5 million through Transport Canada’s Green Shipping Corridor Fund, marking a significant milestone in establishing Atlantic Canada as a hub for green hydrogen and ammonia production and transportation. The $22.5-million investment will accelerate the development of the EverWind’s Point Tupper green hydrogen and green ammonia... Read more →

Having designed and tested the first two-stroke ammonia engine (earlier post), MAN Energy Solutions has now launched the ‘AmmoniaMot 2’ research project. Initiated by MAN with partners from industry and research institutes, the project aims to develop a four-stroke, medium-speed, dual-fuel test engine that runs on ammonia. ­ Supported by... Read more →

Ohmium International, a green hydrogen company that designs, manufactures and deploys advanced Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzer solutions, signed a Term Sheet with SwitcH2 BV, a renewable energy Joint Venture with partners such as BW Offshore, a leading provider of offshore production solutions. Under the agreement, Ohmium will develop PEM... Read more →

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has developed a zero-carbon ammonia dual-fuel (DF) engine—the world’s first high-pressure ammonia direct injection engine. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has completed the model-based class approval testing for the “HiMSEN Ammonia Dual-Fuel Engine,” (model: H22CDF-LA) at its Engine Technology Center in the Ulsan Headquarters. The testing was... Read more →

Alfa Laval said it will be ready to supply its first fuel systems for ammonia-fuelled vessels by the end of 2025. Leveraging its extensive expertise with fuels such as LNG, LPG, and methanol, Alfa Laval is accelerating the development of new technologies for ammonia to ensure its safe and efficient... Read more →

Plug Power signed a binding framework agreement with Allied Green Ammonia (AGA), an Australian company focused on green ammonia production, to finalize a supply agreement for three gigawatts (GW) of electrolyzer capacity to AGA’s green hydrogen to ammonia plant in Australia. The framework agreement follows the recently signed MOU and... Read more →

BASF and its customer Evonik have agreed on the first delivery of BASF’s ammonia BMBcert grade. Thereby, both chemical companies demonstrate their commitment to offer products with a reduced product carbon footprint (PCF). With its ammonia BMBcert, BASF delivers to Evonik a product whose PCF is at least 65% lower... Read more →

Lloyd’s Register’s (LR) business advisory team is partnering with energy companies ROTOBOOST and Amogy on a fuel cell and pre-combustion Carbon Capture Storage System (CCS) study to assess opportunities for emissions reduction. The joint development project (JDP) will evaluate the use of hydrogen fuel cells, ammonia and methane cracking technology... Read more →

ADNOC will acquire a 35% equity stake in Exxon Mobil Corporation’s proposed low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia production facility in Baytown, Texas. The agreement represents a significant investment in the United States’ energy production and the global energy transition. It will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions across hard-to-decarbonize sectors, including industry,... Read more →

Topsoe and its partners Skovgaard Energy and Vestas have inaugurated a new green ammonia plant in Ramme, Denmark. The plant will demonstrate a dynamic approach, which entails that the plant will adapt to the inherent fluctuations in power output from the renewable power sources in integration with the plant’s electrolysis... Read more →

Wärtsilä has signed a contract with Norwegian shipowner Eidesvik to supply the equipment for the conversion of an offshore platform supply vessel (PSV) to operate with ammonia fuel. The vessel, ‘Viking Energy’, which is on contract to energy major Equinor, is scheduled for conversion in early 2026 and is expected... Read more →

NYK Line and IHI Power Systems, in cooperation with Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK), have completed the world’s first ammonia-fueled vessel for commercial use—the tugboat Sakigake. The NYK Group company Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha will employ the vessel in tugboat operations in Tokyo Bay over a three-month demonstration period. This vessel was a... Read more →

NYK reached a basic agreement for the marine transport of green ammonia to Japan in collaboration with Kyushu Electric Power Company, Sojitz Corporation and Sembcorp Green Hydrogen Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Industries, a leading energy company in Asia engaged in a project to produce green ammonia.... Read more →

Next Hydrogen Solutions, a designer and manufacturer of electrolyzers, has been awarded a contract by the University of Minnesota (UMN) for its latest generation electrolysis technology to be installed at the UMN West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC). The WCROC project is supported by the US Department of Energy’s... Read more →

CF Industries Holdings—the world’s largest producer of ammonia—is moving forward with a carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project at its Yazoo City, Mississippi, Complex that is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere from the facility by up to 500,000 metric tons annually. As part of the project,... Read more →

A team from Beijing University of Technology and Beijing Automobile Research Institute Company has used ammonia as a combustion inhibitor to mitigate or eliminate knock and to expand power in a direct-injection hydrogen engine. A paper on their work is published in the journal Fuel. Hong et al. Knock-free operation... Read more →

A team from Tianjin University in China has expxlored the combustion and flame development characteristics of ammonia at different excess air ratios (λ) in an optical spark ignition (SI) engine employing high-speed natural flame luminosity (NFL) imaging, OH* chemiluminescence imaging and flame spectra measurement. The combustion performance and flame development... Read more →

A new study led by researchers from MIT finds that burning ammonia for maritime fuel could worsen air quality further and lead to devastating public health impacts, unless it is adopted alongside strengthened emissions regulations. It has been estimated that maritime shipping accounts for almost 3% of global carbon dioxide... Read more →

Amogy, a provider of mature, scalable, and efficient ammonia-to-power solutions, and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MSB), a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, have completed the feasibility study of collaboration concept designs of onboard hydrogen production and utilization with Amogy’s ammonia-cracking technology and Mitsubishi Ammonia Supply and Safety System... Read more →

Air Liquide plans to invest up to US$850 million to build, own and operate four as well as related infrastructure in the framework of a long-term binding agreement with ExxonMobil for its planned low-carbon hydrogen project in Baytown, TX. This will enable Air Liquide to increase its oxygen production capacity... Read more →

Swiss marine power company WinGD, Swedish marine technology leader Alfa Laval and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) will work with Korean shipbuilder K Shipbuilding (KSB) on the development of an ammonia-fueled MR tanker design, under a memorandum of understanding signed in April. The design will feature a 6X52DF‑A engine... Read more →

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and the Liberian Registry are both granting approval in principle (AiP) to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Capital Gas Ship Management (Capital Gas) for a very large ammonia carrier (VLAC) design. This vessel design features the integration of Amogy’s carbon-free ammonia-to-electrical power system.... Read more →