Houston-based Samsung E&A has secured a contract for front-end engineering design (FEED) for a section of a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant under development by DG Fuels in St. James Parish, LA, the company said this week.
The project would produce 600,000 tons/year of SAF using waste resources such as agricultural byproducts and woody biomass as raw materials. Samsung E&A will be responsible for the site’s blue hydrogen facilities, including air separation units, auto thermal reforming (ATR) and carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, as well as green hydrogen facilities based on electrolysis.
DG Fuels selected Samsung E&A as a major contractor for the Louisiana plant (see rendering below) in November. It estimated the total project cost at $8 billion. It did not indicate when a final investment decision (FID) might be reached or when the plant would become operational.
