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PROJECT PROGRESS TE H2, together with Verbund, in industries such as steelmaking to align supply and demand in terms of
Tecnimont awarded construction contract for will lead the development, fi nancing, and curbing the region’s dependence price.” Europe should help fi nance and
construction, and operation of the on Russian natural gas. While green subsidise such investment that contri-
Fertiglobe’s low-carbon ammonia plant integrated project, from producing hydrogen projects have mushroomed butes to its energy security, Mr. Corchia
green electricity to producing green on the continent, few have reached fi nal said.
hydrogen. In addition, Verbund will approval stage as large-scale produc-
Tecnimont, a business unit of Italian coordinate the transport of the pro- tion and transport remain more expen- The fi rst phase of the project would
engineering major, Maire Group, has duced hydrogen towards Central sive than gas. require “billions of dollars” of invest-
been awarded a construction contract Europe. ment for the construction of the hydro-
for Fertiglobe’s 1-mtpa low-carbon “Europe and part of Asia are struc- gen production plant, 3 gigawatts of
ammonia production facility in UAE. Hydrogen has been touted by Euro- turally short of decarbonised energy,” renewable power capacity, and a pipe-
pean policymakers in recent years as David Corchia, CEO of TE H2, told line between the south and the north
Last year, ADNOC-owned Abu key to reducing the use of fossil fuels reporters on a call. “The challenge is of Tunisia, he said.
Dhabi Chemicals Derivatives Company
RSC Ltd. (TA’ZIZ) had signed a share- FOCUS ON NICKEL
holder agreement with Fertiglobe, GS Australia’s Wyloo plans downstream battery materials
Energy Corporation (GS Energy) and
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to develop the faci- processing facility in Canada
lity at the TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals
Zone, a chemicals and transition fuels
ecosystem under development in Al Australia-based nickel specialist,
Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi. 2024, with operations scheduled to vinyl chloride, vinyl chloride monomer Wyloo, has entered into a Memorandum
commence in 2027. and caustic soda, setting the foundation for of Understanding (MoU) with the
Low-carbon ammonia is made from manufacturing hundreds of new products City of Greater Sudbury to secure a
hydrogen derived from natural gas and A preliminary life cycle assessment in the UAE for the fi rst time. parcel of land to build a downstream
nitrogen, with the carbon dioxide pro- study has estimated that phase 1 of the plant battery materials processing facility.
duced captured and stored. Ammonia will produce 50% lower-carbon intensity With a mandate to position the UAE The new facility is expected to fi ll a
can be used as a low-carbon fuel for ammonia compared to conventional as a global chemicals’ leader, TA’ZIZ has critical gap in Canada’s electric vehicle
applications, including transportation ammonia. In the second stage, the plant initiated the design process for a future, (EV) battery supply chain by establishing
and power generation and in industries, will further reduce its carbon intensity via multi-billion dollar expansion that will Canada’s fi rst mine-to-precursor cathode
such as steel, cement and fertilisers. capturing and sequestrating carbon dioxide more than double its phase 1 production active material (pCAM) integrated
emissions. The fi rst phase of TA’ZIZ prio- capacity and increase its focus on decarbo- solution.
The construction of the new facility ritises production of six chemicals: am- nisation through clean power and carbon
is set to begin in the third quarter of monia, methanol, ethylene dichloride, poly- capture. Wyloo’s CEO Canada, Mr. Kristan
Straub said the facility would provide
DECARBONISED ENERGY the missing piece in Canada’s aspira-
TotalEnergies jv inks MoU for green hydrogen project tions to develop a domestic EV battery
supply chain, by producing low-carbon
in Tunisia nickel sulphate and nickel-dominant never been more apparent. Our facility combined with third-party feed from
will be the missing piece that builds the other North American sources, we are
pCAM, key ingredients for EV batteries.
capacity to process battery materials building enough capacity to meet 50
French energy giant TotalEnergies study to develop pipelines to Central during its initial phase, with the poten- “Canada has invested over $40-bn here in Sudbury,” he said. per cent of the nickel demand from
and Austrian utility Verbund are con- Europe for a large-scale green hydro- tial to scale up production to 1-mtpa to date to establish the country as a the announced EV investments,” said
sidering producing green hydrogen gen project named “H2 Notos”. in South Tunisia. global hub for the EV industry. While Nickel for the facility will be sup- Mr. Straub.
in Tunisia, before exporting the zero- we commend this investment, it has plied by Wyloo’s proposed Eagle’s
emissions fuel by pipeline to Europe. H2 Notos aims to produce green The project will access the Europe- exposed a signifi cant gap in the North Nest mine in the Ring of Fire region Wyloo is currently completing a
hydrogen using electrolysers powered an green hydrogen market through the American EV supply chain, specifi - of northern Ontario, as well as other scoping study for the project, with
TE H2, TotalEnergies’ jv with by large onshore wind and solar farms “SoutH2 Corridor,” a hydrogen pipeline cally, the conversion of ore to battery sources of third-party nickel-bearing construction of the facility expected to
Luxembourg-based EREN Groupe, in Tunisia and supplied with desali- project connecting North Africa to Italy, chemicals. The urgency to bolster feed and recycled battery materials. commence following the construction
and Verbund, signed a MoU with the nated seawater. The project aims to Austria, and Germany, which is expected North America’s capacity for process- of its proposed Eagle’s Nest mine. Mine
Republic of Tunisia for a feasibility produce 200-ktpa of green hydrogen to be commissioned around 2030. ing metals – in particular, nickel – has “With Eagle’s Nest as our anchor, construction is targeted to begin in 2027.

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