- Japan’s Itochu joins forces on Canadian ammonia output
- Japan is aiming to develop ammonia supply chains for the country’s energy security
Japanese trading house Itochu plans to help produce and sell ammonia from gas in Canada’s Alberta province from 2026, in a venture that will capture and store the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced says an article on Argus Media.
Itochu with Petronas Energy
Itochu will work on the project with Petronas Energy Canada. Itochu will be in charge of sales and logistics of the ammonia, considering potential exports to Japanese power, metal, and petrochemical producers. The companies are targeting to start construction of the 1mn t/yr plant in 2023.
Storage of CO2
The companies plan to use natural gas generated from Petronas’ oil fields in Alberta as the ammonia feedstock while capturing and storing CO2 emitted during the production process to manufacture so-called blue ammonia. Itochu and the partners plan to send the CO2 to existing carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities managed by Shell or Canadian companies to store it underground. They have not specified to which CCS facilities they will send the CO2.
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Source: Argus Media
