Browsing: Middle east

With projects in India, Europe, and Southeast Asia moving into advanced planning or early deployment phases, hydrogen’s transition from a policy aspiration to a commercial reality is gaining traction—though challenges remain, particularly around scale, capital expenditure, and offtake certainty.

Saudi Arabia’s NEOM Green Hydrogen Company’s ambitious project is progressing rapidly, with 80% of construction completed across various sites including a green hydrogen facility, wind garden, solar farm, and transmission grid in the emerging city of Oxagon.

Arctech has signed a strategic agreement with India’s ACME Cleantech Solutions to supply 175 MWp of solar trackers for a landmark green ammonia project in Duqm, Oman.

Jordanian Council of Ministers approved a land use agreement with Ocior Energy, an India-based renewable energy firm, clearing the path for feasibility studies into a green hydrogen production project on Jordanian soil.

A $550 million infrastructure project at Oman’s Port of Duqm is positioning the Gulf as a serious contender in the global race to scale low-carbon industrial supply chains, with Investcorp’s infrastructure arm, AIIP, taking a central role.

Neom’s green hydrogen project, the largest of its kind globally, was conceived with the capacity to produce 600 tonnes of…

OQ Gas Networks SAOG (OQGN), the exclusive operator of Oman’s natural gas transmission network, has signed a Term Sheet Cooperation Agreement with Belgium-based energy infrastructure group Fluxys.

On Sunday, Hydrom—Oman’s state-owned hydrogen orchestrator—finalized Project Development and Usufruct Agreements with India’s ACME Group, officially integrating Phases 2 and 3 of the Duqm-based hydrogen and ammonia project into the country’s centralized green hydrogen framework.

Masdar and Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna announced a landmark collaboration to develop up to 500MW of baseload renewable energy backed by battery energy storage systems (BESS), alongside 2GW of additional storage deployments across the country.

Oman is aiming to accelerate its green hydrogen ambitions with the launch of a Single Permit System, unveiled during the kickoff of its third green hydrogen auction round.