Amnah-led consortium to invest USD 6 bn in Oman green hydrogen facility: Amnah Group — a consortium comprising Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), Blue Power Partners (BPP), and Al Khadra — will invest c. USD 6 bn in a green hydrogen facility in Oman, according to a statement. The timeline for the project’s operational launch has not been disclosed, but CIP partner Karsten Plauborg noted that the consortium will hammer out the development plan for the production plant “in the coming period.”

The details: The consortium will establish a green hydrogen production facility spanning some 320 sq km in Oman’s Al Wusta governorate, producing 215k tons of green hydrogen annually, primarily for use in green steel plants in the Port of Duqm, the statement notes. The facility will also be powered by 4.5 GW of renewable energy.

Who is doing what: CIP will leverage its experience in the construction of renewables projects, BPP will contribute with its expertise in modeling and quantifying solar and wind resources, and Al Khadra will use its local networking power to form engineering, procurement, and construction partnerships to bring the project online, according to the statement.

The investment plan: CIP says it is actively looking to onboard new investors, beginning with “wind and solar measurement campaigns to make sure we understand exactly the quality of the resources. And we will also engage, at a deeper level, with banks to fully understand the bankability issues that we will face for the project,” Plauborg said.

REMEMBER- Amnah’s investment is part of a wider USD 20 bn agreement: Hydrom — owned by Energy Development Oman — signed two other agreements last week granting blocks of land for planned green hydrogen plants worth an estimated USD 16 bn. The three projects — including the Amnah project — will have a cumulative production green hydrogen generation volume of 500k tons annually.