Titan plans world's largest bio-LNG plant in Amsterdam

The Netherlands' Titan Cleanfuels announced last week plans to build the world's largest bio-LNG plant in the Dutch port of Amsterdam, to provide fuel for decarbonising shipping.

The plant, with a capacity of 200,000 metric tons/year, will be supplied with biogas mostly by BioValue, one of the Netherlands' biggest suppliers of the fuel, under a recently signed contract. The remainder will come from other European installations linked to the existing gas grid. Germany's Linde will undertake basic engineering for the project, and will provide its proprietary liquefaction technology.

The project is expected to be completed by 2025.

Most of the bio-LNG plant will be used by LNG-fuelled vessels owned by Titan's customers. The rest will be used at truck refuelling stations and by industrial customers.

"Titan is committed to decarbonise shipping by supplying [bio-LNG] and any other renewable fuels such as hydrogen-derived methane, also known as E-LNG," the company's chief technology officer Ronald van Selm said in a statement. "Strategic value chain collaborations are paramount to ramping up alternative fuel production to the scale required for shipping."