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MEED | MEED | Wednesday, August 19, 2026 | 12:00 PM UTC
Construction work on the $8.5bn Neom Green Hydrogen project at Oxagon in Saudi Arabia is complete, and the facility has entered the commissioning stage ahead of commercial operations targeted for 2027.
Neom Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC), a joint venture of Saudi-listed Acwa, US-headquartered industrial gases group Air Products and Neom, is developing the project.
Acwa’s chief financial officer, Abdulhameed Al-Muhaidib, said during the company’s recent H1 2026 earnings call that construction has been completed and commissioning activities are now under way.
“It’s really more now into commissioning and the target to go into commercial operation next year,” he told investors.
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The project is designed to produce up to 600 tonnes a day of green hydrogen, which will be converted into green ammonia for export. It is supported by about 4GW of solar and wind power generation capacity, with the renewable power that is generated being used to produce hydrogen through electrolysis.
Air Products is also the exclusive offtaker for green ammonia produced at the facility under a 30-year agreement.
NGHC said in March that its renewable power generation assets, including the wind and solar farms, and transmission grid, had reached approximately 95% completion.
India’s Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project’s renewable energy and transmission and distribution package.
L&T’s EPC scope includes a 2,200MW solar plant, a 1,370MW wind farm, a 400MW battery energy storage system and a transmission network extending 190 kilometres.
The project reached financial close in 2023. Once operational, the facility is expected to produce up to 1.2 million tonnes a year of green ammonia for export.
