The Green Energy Oman (GEO) project has contracted engineering services firm Worley to evaluate its proposal for a 25GW green hydrogen plant.

The GEO consortium is comprised of Omani national energy company OQ, low-carbon fuel developer Intercontinental Energy and Kuwaiti state clean energy fund Enertech.

Worley will evaluate the feasibility of the renewables supply, electrolyser function, and storage and transportation of green ammonia.

The project aims to produce over 1.8mn t/yr of green hydrogen, which can produce 10mn t/yr of green ammonia, making it one of the largest propositions in the world.

25GW – Size of planned project

“The GEO team, together with our technical specialists, are at the vanguard of mega-scale green fuels project development,” says Najla Zuhair al-Jamali, CEO of alternative energy at OQ.

“The work being undertaken will place Oman at the forefront of such projects, maximising the utilisation of Oman’s natural resources of wind and solar to produce green fuels,” she adds.

FID is targeted for 2026. Construction would then start in 2028 in the Al Wusta governorate on the Arabian Sea, with the project built in stages and reaching full capacity by 2038.

Leveraging expertise

Worley is involved with more than 120 hydrogen developments worldwide, including Shell’s Hydrogen One project in the Port of Rotterdam, BP and Danish green energy company Orsted’s project to build a 60MW electrolyser at BP’s Lingen refinery in Germany, and the Liquid Wind project in northern Sweden. The firm is also involved in more than 800 wind projects and over 370 solar projects.

Oman has plans to build 1GW of green and blue hydrogen capacity by 2025, 10GW by 2030, and 30GW by 2040. Most developments are based around a new port and economic zone at Duqm.

Earlier this month, Norwegian solar specialist Scatec agreed to take a 50pc stake in a $3.5bn green hydrogen and ammonia plant planned at Duqm by India’s Acme that hopes to produce 1.2mn t/yr of green ammonia from 3.5GW of renewable power capacity.

BP signed an agreement in January with Oman’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals to develop a multiple-gigawatt, world-class renewable energy and green hydrogen development in the country.

As part of the agreement, BP will capture and evaluate solar and wind data from large tracts of land to evaluate the feasibility of large-scale renewables deployment.

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Author: Tom Young