Aramco & Linde Engineering to develop ammonia cracking technology

Aramco & Linde Engineering to develop ammonia cracking technology

Saudi Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and Germany-based Linde Engineering, a global leader in the production and processing of gases, have signed an agreement to jointly develop a new ammonia cracking technology.

The collaboration between the two companies will combine Linde Engineering and Aramco’s experience and capabilities in industrial research and development, lower-carbon hydrogen, and ammonia cracking technology.

A potential differentiator of this new technology is the ammonia cracking catalyst, jointly developed by Aramco and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), which will be evaluated against other catalysts.

Ahmad Al-Khowaiter

SVP & CTO

Aramco “This agreement is part of our ongoing technology and business development efforts to establish a commercially viable lower-carbon hydrogen supply chain. We believe the advanced ammonia cracking technology we are co-developing with Linde Engineering will play a key role in realizing our objectives.”

Under the agreement, Aramco and Linde Engineering plan to build a demonstration plant in northern Germany to showcase this new ammonia cracking technology. Linde Engineering intends to offer this ammonia-cracking technology to current and new customers, creating new commercial opportunities within the global lower-carbon energy supply chain. The emerging lower-carbon ammonia business may prove to be key in bridging the