EemsGas Awards €100 Million Design Contract for Green Gas Project in the Netherlands

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 9, EemsGas, a Dutch energy project development company, awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the Delfzijl green gas plant to French engineering firm Technip Energies. The project is located in the Delfzijl chemical park, with a planned total investment of approximately €100 million. It will use waste wood gasification technology to produce renewable methane, with a designed annual output of approximately 18 million cubic meters. The project has now entered the front-end engineering design phase, with a final investment decision planned for 2027 and production scheduled to begin in 2029.

Under the terms of this contract, Technip Energies will further carry out overall plant design, project cost estimation and technical feasibility assessment, clarifying the technical and investment conditions required for subsequent project implementation. The FEED results will serve as an important basis for EemsGas to make its final investment decision in 2027. Once a positive investment decision is made, the project will enter the construction phase, with the first green gas planned to be produced in 2029.

EemsGas was jointly established in 2022 by Perpetual Next, a Dutch renewable feedstock production company, and Gasunie, a natural gas infrastructure operator, each holding a 50% stake. The project plans to build an industrial-scale waste wood gasification facility in the Delfzijl chemical park, converting recycled waste wood into green gas that can be fed into the natural gas grid. Project development and investment decisions are organized and advanced by the joint venture between the two parties.

The plant is planned to adopt three technologies developed by TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research: MILENA, OLGA and ESME, forming a system for waste wood gasification, syngas purification and methanation production. The MILENA gasifier will convert waste wood into product gas; the OLGA purification system will remove tar and dust from the gas and use the separated substances as energy for the gasifier; the ESME methanation system will further convert the purified gas into methane that meets the injection requirements of the Dutch natural gas grid. The project plan also involves the construction of gasification, gas purification and methanation facilities.

Preliminary arrangements for feedstock supply have been made. On September 3, 2026, Perpetual Next signed a waste wood supply cooperation agreement with Dutch company PreZero, under which PreZero will continuously supply low-grade waste wood to Perpetual Next's production facilities under development in Delfzijl and Moerdijk. The feedstock will be used for bio-methanol and bio-methane production, and EemsGas is one of the bio-methane projects in which Perpetual Next participates in development.

EemsGas has previously obtained two Dutch government subsidy supports related to project construction and operation. On May 21, 2026, Gasunie disclosed that the project had received an SDE++ operating subsidy commitment totaling €149.8 million from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), covering 15 years of production and operation support. The project had also previously received a €30 million DEI+ investment subsidy commitment, designated for the construction of the Delfzijl green gas facility. The two supports correspond to project construction investment and future production operations, respectively.

The project plans to transport green gas through the existing Dutch natural gas infrastructure to residential and commercial users, and plans to use the local steam network to absorb steam generated by the production facility. According to the plant plan published by the project developer, the facility will include a gasification system, a gas purification system and a methanation system. This FEED work will further refine the engineering configuration and provide a design basis for subsequent investment decisions and construction implementation.