Aiming to export for Japanese coal-fired power plants, Mitsubishi is planning to start production of fuel ammonia to produce 1 million tons per year in late 2020s in U. S. A.

On September 21, the company announced that it agreed with a company fully owned by Denbury of US oil major for the principal requirements as to the capture and storage (CCS) of CO2 emitted from the ammonia producing process. Mitsubishi plans to construct a fuel ammonia plant to produce one million tons yearly in the Gulf of Mexico region of USA. Denbury will take out CO2 to be emitted from the ammonia production process in the plant.

Denbury possesses a pipeline to transport CO2 and is developing an EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) business in the Gulf of Mexico. Mitsubishi assumes to make delivery of 1.8 million t yearly at maximum, while Denbury plans to store it underground in use of EOR or CCS to be developed by itself.

Mitsubishi is also planning to produce fuel ammonia in Canada for Japanese coal-fired power plants, aiming to export about one million tons to Japan in late 2020. Furthermore, in Indonesia, foreseeing an expansion of demand for fuel ammonia, it is planning to build up CCS facilities in the plant (a capacity of 700,000 tons) of PAU which is a local ammonia company in which Mitsubishi is going to invest.

Regarding fuel ammonia, they are examining now a mixed or exclusive combustion for an alternative use to replace coal in the coal-fired electric power plants in Japan. According to the roadmap shown by the Public-Private Council for Introduction of Fuel Ammonia led by the Government, A demand of three million tons in 2030 has been estim