Aker Horizons ASA has signed a letter of intent with German gas group VNG to supply up to 200,000 tonnes of green ammonia per year from Narvik, Northern Norway.
The green ammonia will be shipped from Narvik to terminals in Germany, where VNG will distribute it further as ammonia or hydrogen to its customers. The partnership supports Norway’s commitment to becoming a key supplier of clean hydrogen to Germany and the EU, helping foster new green industrial development and strengthening European energy security. The ammonia production capacity at Narvik is estimated at 1,000-1500 tonnes per day by 2028.
Norway aims to actively contribute to the development of the hydrogen market in Germany and the EU. The country and Germany reaffirmed their joint intention to ensure large-scale supply of hydrogen by 2030 and to establish the necessary infrastructure from Norway to Germany. Germany estimates it will need up to 130 terawatt hours of hydrogen by 2030, of which 40-75 TWh would be made from renewable electricity, i.e., green hydrogen.
Aker Horizons is developing green value chains based on competitive renewable energy that is integrated with midstream products such as hydrogen and downstream end-use products such as green ammonia in Narvik. The company is also developing a large-scale production facility for blue hydrogen at Aukra, on the Norwegian west coast, with partners CapeOmega and Shell, with an estimated capacity of 2,500 MW or 1,200 tonnes hydrogen per day by 2030. The feasibility study of constructing a hydrogen pipeline from Norway to Germany is under evaluation by Gassco, DENA, Aker Horizons, and other industrial partners.
The partnership between Aker Horizons and VNG accelerates the ramping up of the hydrogen economy in line with German and EU ambitions, supporting the decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries. The purchase of green ammonia from the Narvik project could be an important step in driving decarbonization in eastern Germany, especially in industry, as Germany prioritizes its industrial sectors for the use of hydrogen until 2030.
