Vietnam’s Lilama delivers first modules of mega green hydrogen to Saudi Arabia

Vietnamese industrial engineering company Lilama has delivered its first electrolyzer modules to the $8 billion Neom Green Hydrogen project in Saudi Arabia, currently the world’s largest such facility.

The delivery of four of 110 modules per the signed agreement was a milestone for the firm’s participation in the global green energy supply chain as well as climate change adaptation efforts, Lilama said Tuesday.

With this achievement, Lilama is among the first businesses in the world to participate in the green hydrogen supply chain, contributing to the world’s net-zero emission commitments made at the COP26, COP27 and COP28.

The achievement has resulted from the cooperation between Lilama and Thyssenkrupp Nucera, part of Germany-based multinational industrial engineering giant Thyssenkrupp. The two sides plan to deliver all modules to the mega project by the third quarter of 2025, then continue with other green hydrogen projects in Europe, North America and the Middle East.

The Neom Green Hydrogen project in Saudi Arabia aims to fully use renewable energy, particularly wind and solar energy, to generate 600 tons of hydrogen every day. Each 20MW electrolyzer module, weighing 200 tons, can produce about six tons of green hydrogen per day.

The electrolyzer manufacturing is the second collaboration between Lilama and Thyssenkrupp Nucera, after the first one on making two large-scale water electrolysis standard modules for a green liquid hydrogen factory in Arizona, the U.S.