Oman is getting its first e-waste recycling plant + has a timeline for green ammonia plant

Oman is getting an e-waste recycling facility… Canadian waste management outfit ERSInternational is launching Oman’s first e-waste recycling facility in 1Q 2023, Access Wire reported. The facility — located in the Dhofar province capital Salalah — aims to process at least 500k pounds of discarded electronic devices in its first year of operation. Oman has been exporting e-waste and storing some in anticipation of opening a recycling facility, the statement notes.

…and sets a date for USD 1 bn green ammonia project: The Marubeni-led consortium’s one mn ton per annum green ammonia SalalaH2 project is projected to become commercially operational by 1Q 2028, the Oman Observer reports. The plant will have a generational capacity of 1k tons per day and will be powered by nearly 4 GW worth of electricity produced by pre-existing or new wind and solar power plants, the news outlet notes. Japan’s Marubeni is the largest developer in a consortium which includes Oman’s OQ Alternative Energy and German chemicals company Linde.

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• Amea Power’s 100 MW solar plantinTunisia will break ground in 2H 2023. The solar facility in northern Tunisia’s Kairouan is part of a national push to build solar plants with a combined capacity of 500 MW across the country. (Babnet)

• KSA’s King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center inked an agreement with China’s Economics & Technology Research Institute to cooperate on energy and environment research. (Saudi Gazette)
• The UAE approved the second phase of Dubai’s 2040 Urban Master Plan with a focus on enhancing food security and reducing the city’s carbon footprint. (Statement)