JAKARTA – PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero) is serious about developing ammonia as a step to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At least, there are three steps prepared for the development of Ammonia in Indonesia.

Deputy Main Director of Pupuk Indonesia Nugroho Christijanto said the first step was collaboration and cooperation with several customers who owned the technology. For this first step, Pupuk Indonesia has started its implementation in collaboration with TOYO Engineering Corporation to Mitsui & Co Ltd.

"We have a partnership with TOYO and other companies such as Mitsui because they already have the technology, while Pupuk Indonesia has the necessary infrastructure," he said.

Then the second step is to collaborate with industry players to address common needs. This collaboration can be done by exchanging the products needed by each.

"For example what can be exchanged with our products. So at the same time we can comply with the decarbonization target," said Nugroho.

Then the last one is the importance of collaboration between wider ecosystems. For example, by collaborating with several companies across sectors such as marine to energy.

"Third, collaboration between wider ecosystems. I believe we cannot avoid that Ammonia will become a future energy source and will be consumed not only as we know it now but in the maritime industry and so on," explained Nugroho

Through these three steps, it is hoped that the use of ammonia can be more massive in various fields so that it can assist the government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In the end, the Net Zero Emission target in 2060 can be achieved.

"So we are trying to decarbonize what we already have from our ammonia factory, from our power plants and also other facilities that emit greenhouse emissions," said Nugroho.

Executive Officer/Division Director of Solution Business Toyo Engineering Corp., Eiji Sakata said, Toyo is ready to help Pupuk Indonesia and the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, Toyo cooperated with Pupuk Indonesia to build a factory in Indonesia to produce Ammonia.

"Have great interest and opportunity to enter the ammonia field. For TOYO, our activities are on green and blue Ammonia products," he explained

Managing Executive Officer of IHI Corporation, Nobuhiko Kubota said, his party is committed to participating in solving the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, IHI has prepared an ammonia supply chain from upstream to downstream.

Even though there are several challenges related to technology, IHI will consistently produce green ammonia. While downstream, IHI is also thinking about its use.

Downstream it uses ammonia and feeds ammonia into a gas turbine with 2 mw. For maritime, we are trying to create a maritime industry and recently in Japan to use ammonia as a steel forging industry and so on," said Nobuhiko.

KBR Inc's Business Development Director Southeast Asia & Australia, Roy Daroyni, said ammonia could be used as a solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Remember, ammonia can be used as a variety of energy sources, including transportation.

"So why use ammonia as fuel, because ammonia can reduce carbon dioxide emissions and we can continue to use existing assets. So we are trying to focus on achieving this through clean ammonia," said Roy.