Samsung E&A said on the 6th that it held a groundbreaking ceremony for the "U.S. Wabash low-carbon ammonia project" on the 5th local time.
About 70 project and government officials, including Minister Kim Yun-duk of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Samsung E&A President Namgung Hong, U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary James P. Danly, and Wabash Valley Resources Board Chair Simon Greenshields, attended the groundbreaking at the Hay Adams hotel in Washington.
The project, to be built in West Terre Haute, Indiana, is an eco-friendly ammonia facility capable of producing 500,000 tons of ammonia per year and capturing 1.67 million tons of carbon dioxide. It is a national project with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment.
Samsung E&A signed an EPF (Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication) contract worth about $475 million (about 680 billion won) with Wabash Valley Resources in Oct. last year. The project is underway with completion targeted for 2029.
Samsung E&A plans to leverage its extensive ammonia plant execution experience assets and differentiated technologies—DT (digital transformation), AI (artificial intelligence), automation, and modules—in this project, and to work closely with the client and technology licensor Honeywell UOP to execute the project successfully.
A Samsung E&A official said, "We are pleased to carry out this meaningful project between Korea and the United States," adding, "We will continue to expand new businesses in the future energy transition field."