Fertiglobe completes its first green ammonia shipment:Abu Dhabi-based OCI and Adnoc JV Fertiglobe has sent its first shipment of green ammonia. The shipment has arrived in India, having been produced at the company’s green fuels generation facility in Egypt, the company said in a statement. The value of the transaction was not disclosed.

The green ammonia shipment was delivered to India's Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals and Fertilisers Limited (TFL), which will supply the NH3 to Unilever’s India-arm Hindustan Unilever for the production of soda ash. The soda ash — which is mainly used for glass, rechargeable batteries, and soap manufacturing — will serve as feedstock for the production of laundry powder. Conventional, carbon-intensive soda ash production has a greenhouse gas emission footprint of around 1.2 kg of carbon equivalent per kg. Abu Dhabi-based Fertiglobe anticipates its green ammonia plant will supply enough feedstock for the production of some 6k tons of green laundry powder, Hydrogen Insight reports.

A UAE-based ammonia plant could be in the pipeline: Fertiglobe, alongside GS Energy, and Adnoc-ADQ JV Ta’ziz has signed a shareholder agreement with Japan’s Mitsui to construct a facility to produce some 1 mn tons of low-carbon ammonia annually. Fertiglobe CEO Ahmed El Hoshy said the company is awaiting a final investment decision on the project.

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