Air Liquide and Vopak plan to collaborate on the event and operation of infrastructure for ammonia import, cracking, and hydrogen distribution in Singapore.
Beneath a memorandum of understanding, the 2 corporations will examine and discover the joint improvement of low carbon ammonia provide chains in Singapore, together with the potential improvement of ammonia cracking amenities, related ammonia storage and dealing with infrastructure at Vopak’s Banyan terminal, and the distribution of low-carbon hydrogen by means of a hydrogen pipeline community.
The collaboration goals to assist Singapore’s Nationwide Hydrogen Technique, specializing in driving superior hydrogen applied sciences with excessive business readiness to ascertain low-carbon hydrogen provide chains, Vopak stated in a information launch Monday.
“Air Liquide is dedicated to partnering with business companions, resembling Vopak, to supply modern and sustainable options in assist of Singapore’s decarbonization efforts”, Zhang Xi, Southeast Asia Cluster Vice President and Managing Director of Air Liquide Singapore, stated. “Air Liquide’s industrial scale ammonia (NH3) cracking pilot plant is underneath development in Belgium. We’re proud to use our experience to crack low carbon ammonia into low-carbon hydrogen, aimed toward lowering carbon emissions in industrial basins and exhausting to abate sectors, advancing in direction of a extra sustainable future”.
“Hydrogen and ammonia have the potential to considerably contribute to Singapore’s transition in direction of a low-carbon economic system”, Rob Boudestijn, President of Vopak Singapore, stated. “As Singapore gears up for receiving and dealing with ammonia for energy era and bunkering, cracking of ammonia into hydrogen presents a further utility to assist the business shift to decrease carbon feedstock. We’re enthusiastic about collaborating with Air Liquide to speed up the adoption and commercialization of business ammonia cracking in Singapore”.
Vopak’s Banyan Terminal is an built-in oil, chemical and fuel hybrid storage terminal situated on Jurong Island. The terminal has 112 tanks and a storage capability of near 53 million cubic ft (1.5 million cubic meters).
Biofuels Mixing in Sebarok Terminal
In February, Vopak commissioned 1.4 million cubic ft (40,000 cubic meters) of capability at its Sebarok terminal for mixing biofuels into marine fuels, with the present pipeline system transformed to a devoted biofuel mixing service. The brand new capability is underpinned by buyer dedication, the corporate stated in a separate information launch.
Vopak’s Sebarok terminal is situated near Singapore’s jap anchorage, the place a big a part of bunkering exercise takes place. A part of the terminal was repurposed “in response to growing demand for biofuel mixing and storage options”, the corporate stated.
Rob Boudestijn, Vopak President of Enterprise Unit Singapore, stated, “Our imaginative and prescient for Sebarok terminal is to be a sustainable multi-fuels hub to strengthen Singapore’s place as the highest bunkering hub. As a storage and significant infrastructure companies supplier, this improvement can facilitate the entry of extra biofuels corporations to diversify the provision chain for marine biofuels and speed up the decarbonization of the delivery business”.
Vopak Terminals Singapore is a three way partnership between Royal Vopak, with a 69.5 % stake, and PSA Worldwide Pte Ltd, with a 30.5 % stake. Vopak Terminals Singapore operates 5 terminals and supplies storage, dealing with and transshipment options for the oil, fuel and chemical industries.
Vopak stated it’s accelerating its world portfolio investments in direction of new energies and sustainable feedstocks for which it has allotted $1.09 billion (EUR 1 billion) in progress capital by 2030.
Air Liquide describes itself as a world chief in gases, expertise companies for business and healthcare. It goals to develop options contributing to local weather and the power transition, notably with hydrogen.
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