KBR said today that its blue ammonia technology has been selected by Tokyo-based INPEX Corporation and Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries for a large, commercial-scale clean ammonia production and export project in the US Gulf Coast, according to a news release.
Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide technology licensing and proprietary engineering design for a 1.1 million tonnes per annum ammonia plant, designed to capture carbon while maximizing yields.
LSB is developing a facility in the Houston Ship Channel in partnership with INPEX, Japan’s largest E&P company, and plans to build and operate an ammonia synthesis loop using low-carbon hydrogen produced by Air Liquide, who will also handle the carbon capture and sequestration as well as the nitrogen supply.
Based on LSB’s feasibility study, the cost of the project would come in between $500m and $750m.
