Japanese steel producer Nippon Steel has announced that in joint endeavor with Japan-based electric services company Sumitomo Corporation, it has received orders for high-alloy seamless OCTG for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant intended for a project to construct blue ammonia manufacturing plant that energy company QatarEnergy will lead in Qatar’s Mesaieed Region. Nippon Steel recently conducted the shipment of the first batch in those orders.
In this project, green steel under the brand “NSCarbolex™ Neutral produced by Nippon Steel will be used. The plant will be one of the world’s largest ammonia manufacturing plants with an annual production capacity of 1.2 million mt.