Acwa Power, the world’s largest private water desalination company, a leader in energy transition and first mover into green hydrogen, has announced that it has signed up a consortium of Spanish engineering firm Tecnicas Reunidas and Chinese group Sinopec Guangzhou Engineering to provide convertible front-end engineering design (FEED) services for its Yanbu Green Hydrogen Project in Saudi Arabia.

Under the terms of the agreement, the consortium will provide FEED for a facility with a production capacity of 400,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually, and its conversion into green ammonia through several ammonia synthesis loops. 

The contract will span 10 months, after which the joint venture will present an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) proposal for the execution of this multibillion-dollar facility, which is targeted to be ready for commercial operations by 2030.

Tecnicas Reunidas has been involved in the project since pre-FEED stages and Sinopec Guangzhou Engineering gives continuity with this award to the MoU signed with ACWA Power in 2024.

The Yanbu Green Hydrogen project will contribute to the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors through its base in Yanbu Industrial City. 

It aims to utilise 5 GW each of wind and solar power, coupled with a 400-km transmission line and up to 4.4 GW of electrolysers to annually produce 400,000 tonnes of green hydrogen, which will be converted to 2.5 million tonnes of green ammonia to facilitate its export to international markets.