Middle East Business: Qatar to build world’s largest blue ammonia facility – Gulf Digital News

Middle East Business: Qatar to build world’s largest blue ammonia facility – Gulf Digital News

QatarEnergy’s affiliates, QatarEnergy Renewable Solutions and Qatar Fertiliser Company (Qafco) signed agreements today for the construction of the Ammonia-7 Project, the industry’s first world-scale and largest Blue Ammonia project.

QatarEnergy Renewable Solutions (owned 100% by QatarEnergy) and Qafco (owned 100% by QatarEnergy’s subsidiary, Industries Qatar which is listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange), have joined hands to establish the Ammonia-7 Project, which will have a capacity of 1.2 million tons per annum (MTPA) of Blue Ammonia, making it the world’s largest such facility.

With a targeted start-up date of Q1 2026, the new plant will be located in Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC) and will be operated by Qafco as part of its integrated facilities.

The announcement was made during a ceremony held today at QatarEnergy’s headquarters in Doha to sign the project agreements, including the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract. Valued at approximately 1 billion USD, the EPC contract was awarded to a consortium of ThyssenKrupp and Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC).

The ceremony was attended by Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, President & CEO of QatarEnergy, Abdulrahman Al-Suwaidi, the CEO of Qafco, Martina Merz, CEO Thyssenkrupp AG, Dr Cord Landsmann, CEO Thyssenkrupp Uhde, and Oussama El-Jerbi, CCC Area