The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has issued an initial draft construction permit for a blue ammonia facility backed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Sustainable Fuels Group.
LDEQ is accepting written public comments on the proposed facility through August 22.
The project developers are proposing to construct and operate a new blue ammonia facility on a 237-acre site in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. It would sit on the east side of the Mississippi river adjacent to the existing International Matex Tank Terminal St. Rose Terminal.
Consisting of two 4,000 metric-tons-per-day ammonia trains, the plant would employ technology designed to capture 99% of the CO2 generated in the production process, according to the documents.
The estimated construction cost of the facility is $4.4bn over four years, according to the document, with a fully operational date of 2028.
LDEQ’s environmental assessment also notes that IMTT will spend $500m of supplemental capital on its own terminal to provide new storage tanks for the ammonia from the SCCF facility.
