Posted on 05 Apr 2022
Oman’s Jindal Shadeed Iron and Steel (JSIS) and Sohar Port and Freezone are partnering with Munich-based green energy firm Hydrogen Rise for production of “green” steel using green hydrogen, a first in Oman, Kallanish understands.
Planned initially as a modest-scale venture, the project is proposed to be ramped up in the future. It is slated for commissioning as early as by 2024.
“I am proud to announce that Hydrogen Rise, Jindal Shadeed Iron and Steel and Sohar Port and Freezone have agreed on evaluating a landmark trial of green hydrogen in the production of environment-friendly steel,” says Hydrogen Rise AG co-founder and chief financial officer Olav Carlsen.
“Following a techno-economic feasibility study, the first phase will include a bankable starting size of 35MW electrolysis, with a possible step by step scaling up path to 350MW. Hydrogen Rise, which has a well-established presence in the Sultanate of Oman, will develop, build and operate the green hydrogen facility at Sohar to supply JSIS with its energy requirements,” Carlsen adds.
In 2020, the German firm set up Hydrogen Rise LLC in Oman, with the goal of creating joint ventures with Omani private investors to plan, develop, build and operate green hydrogen production plants in the country.
In January this year, JSJS renewed its contract with Harsco's environmental division for slag management and metal recovery, aimed at reducing carbon footprint (see Kallanish passim).
Sohar-based JSIS’s 2.4 million tonnes annual capacity electric arc furnace meltshop feeds both square and round billet casters. The works also has a 1.8m t/y hot-DRI/HBI plant and a 1.4m t/y rebar mill. In 2019 Shadeed commissioned a new SMS-supplied high-speed billet caster with eight strands and fully equipped with vacuum degassing facility to produce SBQ steel grades.
Source:Kallanish
