McDermott and BW Offshore have entered into a collaboration to advance the technical and commercial viability of offshore blue ammonia production.
The strategic partnership aims to enable a viable pathway for offshore blue ammonia production, contributing to the global transition to low-carbon energy sources, and reinforcing both companies’ commitment to sustainable energy practices.
Both firms will leverage their combined expertise to advance the development of low carbon ammonia production aboard a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility.
FPSOs have the potential to unlock multiple benefits for ammonia production, including advantages in environmental, health and safety, schedule certainty, and competitive levelised costs of ammonia.
BW Offshore will contribute its expertise in FPSO solutions while McDermott brings extensive experience in engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) across the energy sector along with technical knowledge and project execution, working with global fabrication assets and modularised solutions.
Vaseem Khan, Senior Vice President, Global Operations at McDermott, said, “Our offshore module design and fabrication capabilities and low carbon process expertise fits perfectly with BW Offshore’s FPSO know-how, and we are aligned in our commitment to developing sustainable energy and progressing the energy transition.”
Fredrik Savio, Business Unit Manager, New Ventures and Technology at BW Offshore, said it will harness McDermott’s 100 years of offshore expertise and relationships with leading technology providers to advance offshore blue ammonia production. “This collaboration with McDermott underscores our mutual commitment to sustainable energy solutions,” he said.
CB&I, a wholly owned unrestricted subsidiary of McDermott, and Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean have received Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of a cargo containment system and an 80,000 cbm liquid hydrogen (LH2) carrier from DNV. The AiP was formalised with executives from each company at the Gastech Exhibition & Conference in Houston.
