Oman’s Hydrom inks three contracts for green hydrogen production

Oman’s Hydrom inks three contracts for green hydrogen production

Hydrogen Oman SPC (Hydrom), an Energy Development Oman SAOC subsidiary, has signed three agreements to grant the first green hydrogen blocks with investments of over $20 billion, Oman News Agency reported.

The agreements are forecast to yield a total production capacity of half a million tonnes of green hydrogen per annum from more than 12 gigawatts (GW )of installed renewable energy capacity at the three sites, each covering an area of 320 square kilometres in the Al Wusta governorate.

The first of two blocks (Z1-01), launched through a public auction last year, was awarded to a consortium of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Blue Power Partners and Al Khadra, a subsidiary of Hind Bahwan Group, Oman.

The consortium will generate around 200 KTPA [Kilo Tonnes Per Annum] of green hydrogen from 4.5 GW of installed renewable energy capacity for planned green steel plants located in the Port of Duqm in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (SEZAD).

The second project was signed with BP Oman for the development of green hydrogen for ammonia production and export. The anticipated annual production is 150 KTPA of green hydrogen from 3.5 GW of installed renewables capacity in Block Z1-03.

The third project was signed with the consortium of Green Energy