LNG

US company Air Products, the world’s leader in liquefied natural gas technology and equipment, has signed an agreement to provide propriety equipment and a related process license to the Sempra Energy Mexican LNG export plant at Costa Azul on the Pacific Coast.

Air Products, the US industrial gases and LNG equipment provider, has signed a deal in conjunction with ACWA Power of Saudi Arabia and a new smart city planned in the Kingdom for a $5 billion world-scale green hydrogen-based ammonia production facility powered by renewable energy.

The location is Neom, a proposed cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwest Saudi Arabia.

It is planned to incorporate smart-city technologies and also function as a tourist destination. The site is near the Red Sea and the borders of Egypt and Jordan.

The joint venture project is the first partnership for Neom with leading international and national partners in the renewable energy field and Air Products said it would be a cornerstone for its strategy to become a major player in the global hydrogen market.

“It is based on proven, world-class technology and will include the innovative integration of over four gigawatts of renewable power from solar, wind and storage,” said Air Products.

“There will be production of 650 tons per day of hydrogen by electrolysis using Thyssenkrupp technology and the production of nitrogen by air separation using Air Products technology,” it added.

The production of green ammonia will amount to 1.2 million tons per year using Haldor Topsoe technology. The project is scheduled to be onstream in 2025.


“Air Products will be the exclusive off-taker of the green ammonia and intends to transport it around the world to help produce green hydrogen for the transportation market,” said the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania-based company.

Air Products conducts its industrial gases business alongside its provision of LNG equipment products such as the main cryogenic heat exchangers for plants and its proprietary propane pre-cooled mixed refrigerant liquefaction process.

Most of the worldwide LNG production comes from Air Products technology and the company provides key equipment for the natural gas liquefaction process for large export plants, small and mid-sized plants and floating LNG facilities.

The company is also involved in Chinese industrial gases projects and other similar ventures in Saudi Arabia

“We are honored and proud to partner with ACWA Power and Neom and use proven technologies to make the world’s dream of 100 percent green energy a reality,” said Seifi Ghasemi, Chairman, President and Chief Executive for Air Products.

“Harnessing the unique profile of Neon’s sun and wind to convert water to hydrogen, this project will yield a totally clean source of energy on a massive scale and will save the world over three million tons of carbon-dioxide emissions annually,” added Ghasemi.

Mohammad A. Abunayyan, the Chairman of ACWA Power, said the project stems from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s aspirations for Neom to become the global pioneer in sustainable living.

“ACWA Power is proud to take part in this ground-breaking and first-of-its-kind investment,” stated Abunayyan. 

“We have a proven track record of leveraging pioneering renewable technologies to deliver carbon-free power at the lowest cost,” he explained. 

“With our global experience, we are confident that our collaboration with an industry-leading company like Air Products will create significant opportunities in the production of green hydrogen, and further us in our goal to help countries meet their clean energy targets and unlock significant socio-economic benefits,” stated Abunayyan.

The project is based in Neom’s industrial cluster and is enabled by its unique mandate.

The investment is intended to integrate and localize cutting-edge technologies that will harness solar and wind power to produce sustainable and globally accessible green energy.

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Air Products, the leading US LNG equipment-maker and industrial gases company, has completed the world’s largest industrial gas complex at Jazan in Saudi Arabia to provide gas to the Saudi Aramco refinery.

The Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania-based company built the plant under a joint venture with Saudi company ACWA Holding.

It will supply 75,000 metric tonnes per day of gases, including oxygen and nitrogen, to the Saudi Aramco facility.

Air Products industrial gases business is carried out alongside its LNG and equipment products such as LNG main cryogenic heat exchangers and its proprietary propane pre-cooled mixed refrigerant liquefaction process.

In addition to building and designing the Saudi industrial gas complex, Air Products owns 25 percent of the completed plant and ACWA Holding the remaining 75 percent.

“For the Air Products team members involved to complete this project with the extensive worker hours required, facing varied challenges, and to do so without a lost time injury is a truly exceptional milestone,” said Samir J. Serhan, Executive Vice President of Air Products.

“Going forward, when a prospective customer is interested in Air Products’ expertise, we can point to a map and say, let me tell you what we accomplished at Jazan,” stated Serhan.

The work on the Jazan project was carried out by the main Air Products engineering centres located in the UK, the US, China and India with the active engagement of other employees in Saudi Arabia. 

“The now mechanically complete industrial gas complex is expected to be brought on stream in phases in 2019,” said the US company.

Air Products said the Jazan gases complex took around three years to complete and is significantly larger than anything built to date by the company.

“On top of that, there was the massive recruitment effort to bring the construction workforce and others to the remote location, train them, and have them understand our focus on safety,” added Serhan.

The Jazan project effort required the hiring of sub-contractors for almost all of the construction scope.

“At peak construction periods, a workforce of 6,000 people were at the site. The result was a multi-national team of people from over 30 countries filling the varied roles necessary for the project,” said Air Products.

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