A SOUTH Korean firm, Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd, has announced that it will develop a green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Bintulu, Sarawak, under its so-called H2biscus project.

The plant is designed to produce 7,000 tonnes of green hydrogen, 600,000 tonnes of blue ammonia, 630,000 tonnes of green ammonia and 460,000 tonnes of green methanol annually.

Samsung Engineering, a unit of Samsung Electronics and one of the world’s leading engineering, procurement, construction and project management companies, today presented its project proposal to its government at a special briefing.

Its president and chief executive officer Sungan Choi, in announcing the Malaysia-Sarawak H2biscus Green Hydrogen/Ammonia Project to president Moon Jae-in and his cabinet, disclosed that  Samsung Engineering will be collaborating with two other major Korean companies, Posco and Lotte Chemical, in developing “the entire cycle of the project”.

The Koreans’ local partner will be SEDC Energy, a unit of the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC).

The scope of the project includes direct investments, construction, transportation and utilisation.

The plant will employ technology which can reduce, recycle or even remove plant emissions from the atmosphere.

Choi said the project will serve as an example for future renewable energy trading and hydrogen transportation between South Korea and Malaysia.

Yesterday Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg and Deputy Chief Minister Awang Tengah Ali Hassan had an online engagement with the South Korean consortium to gain further insight into the project.

Samsung said the pre-feasibility study of the project has been completed and the feasibility study is expected to start this year.

The contracts for the front-end engineering design and engineering, procurement and  construction are scheduled to be awarded next year.

Samsung Engineering, which is channelling its efforts to be a beyond EPC green solution provider, by providing green infrastructure and energy optimisation services, already has a foot print in Sarawak.

Currently, it is executing the Sarawak Petchem methanol plant project, also in Bintulu.

The plant is projected to produce 5,000 tonnes a day of methanol. – October 7, 2021.