Ma’aden sends first blue ammonia shipments to China: Saudi mining company Ma’aden has exported its first shipments of low-carbon blue ammonia to Chinese petrochemical producer Shenghong Petrochemicals as part of an agreement to supply 25k tons of ammonia, which is in line with the company’s goal of becoming a green leader globally, it said in a statement on Thursday. The amount of blue ammonia shipped was not disclosed, nor was the financial value of the agreement.

A blue ammonia spree: Ma’aden is currently the world’s largest exporter of blue ammonia since it received certification for production last year, according to the statement. It has since shipped over 138k tons of blue ammonia products to countries including Korea, China, Japan, India, Thailand, and the EU.

Another one soon? Ma’aden signed an agreement with US-based trading and logistics firm Trammo last week to deliver the first certified commercial blue ammonia shipment to Europe in 2023.

REMEMBER- MENA has big blue hydrogen ambitions: Aramco and KSA’s SABIC Agri-Nutrients shipped in November 25k tons of blue ammonia to South Korea. Maaden inked an MoU in March with Japanese industrial conglomerate Mitsui & Co. and another with the Taiwan Fertiliser Company that could see it become the first commercial supplier of blue ammonia to both Japan and Taiwan. Over in Qatar, state-owned QatarEnergy signed in September agreements to build the world’s largest blue ammonia plant — worth USD 1 bn — which is set to produce 1.2 mn tons of the green fuel annually.

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