KBR Inc. has secured a contract to offer its inexperienced ammonia expertise for Fortescue’s Holmaneset inexperienced vitality challenge in Norway.
KBR will present the expertise license, proprietary engineering design, and entrance finish engineering design (FEED) help engineering companies for the Holmaneset inexperienced ammonia plant, which has a capability of 675 metric tons per day, the corporate mentioned in a information launch.
“We’re excited to work with Fortescue on this challenge to supply our zero-carbon inexperienced ammonia expertise,” Jay Ibrahim, President for KBR Sustainable Know-how Options, mentioned. “KBR is a big contributor within the growth of the inexperienced vitality worth chain and decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries and we stay up for working with Fortescue to advance their ESG targets”.
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In response to the Fortescue web site, the Holmaneset challenge will make the most of renewable vitality to energy an built-in inexperienced hydrogen and inexperienced ammonia course of plant, full with transmission infrastructure and port amenities, for the transport of inexperienced merchandise to the Norwegian and European markets.
The Holmaneset Undertaking is situated on the coast of the Nordgulen fjord, roughly 5 miles (eight kilometers) west of Svelgen within the Bremanger Municipality in western Norway. Additional, the web site mentioned that the proposed Holmaneset Undertaking will prepared the ground in inexperienced hydrogen and inexperienced ammonia manufacturing for Europe with a large-scale manufacturing plant in western Norway.
Describing itself as a world chief in ammonia expertise, KBR has been on the forefront of innovation within the ammonia marketplace for many years. Since 1943, KBR has licensed, engineered, or constructed greater than 250 grassroot ammonia crops worldwide, KBR acknowledged.
Settlement to Present Lithium Extraction Know-how
Additional, KBR signed an alliance settlement with GeoLith SAS to supply its superior Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) expertise, which allows zero-emission lithium extraction from untapped sources like geothermal and oil effectively brines.
Beneath the phrases of the settlement, KBR will function the unique international licensor of GeoLith’s Li-Capt expertise, which produces pure lithium focus and is adaptable to numerous brine compositions and extraction sources, in keeping with an earlier information launch.
“We’re excited to collaborate with GeoLith to pioneer developments in accessing at present untapped sources of lithium to satisfy the world’s rising lithium-ion battery demand. This alliance helps the worldwide transition in the direction of electrification and reinforces our dedication to a net-zero carbon future,” Ibrahim mentioned. “As a world chief in evaporation and crystallization applied sciences, KBR is effectively positioned to offer end-to-end options important to the event of sustainable mobility”.
“The transition to electrification requires sturdy partnerships throughout the worth chain, and we’re proud to work with KBR to advance and commercialize our expertise on a worldwide scale,” mentioned Jean-Philippe Gibaud, CEO of GeoLith SAS.
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