Técnicas Reunidas has secured the design engineering contract (FEED) to develop a sustainable synthetic fuel industrial plant for aviation (e-SAF) that Alby PtX will build in the locality of Alby, in the Swedish municipality of Ange, which marks the entry of the Spanish company into the Swedish market.
The facility is designed to generate around 66,000 tonnes per year of e-SAF through a 'Power-to-Liquid' scheme that will convert renewable electricity, water and captured carbon dioxide into e-SAF, as the company has detailed in a statement.
Under this FEED contract, Técnicas Reunidas will assume integration of the engineering for all phases of the production chain. The company has emphasized that green hydrogen, obtained through electrolysis, will act as an essential intermediate element in the process.
"The process includes the reverse conversion of water and gas (eRWGS), Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, hydrocarbon enrichment and associated treatment units. In addition, the design incorporates a naphtha recycling system to maximize the utilization of carbon, the overall efficiency of the process and the production yield of e-SAF," it also explained.
As stated by its commercial director at Track&Services, Gonzalo Pardo, this award consolidates the company's position as a 'leading' company in engineering and construction in the field of the energy transition, while also further boosting its portfolio of sustainable fuel, hydrogen and 'Power-to-X' projects in Europe.
For the board member of Alby PtX and CEO of Norsk e-Fuel, Lars Bjorn Larsen, the choice of Técnicas Reunidas represents a 'key milestone' in order to keep moving the Alby project forward to a final investment decision.
The agreement signed now constitutes the initial step towards the eventual formalization of an EPC contract ('engineering, procurement and construction'), which would enable the Spanish engineering firm to carry out detailed engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up of the plant once Alby PtX adopts a favorable final investment decision (FID).
This development also falls within one of the pillars of the Plan Estratégico Salta, aimed at strengthening the capture of contracts linked to engineering services and end-to-end project management.
On the horizon of 2026, Técnicas Reunidas expects to be awarded projects of this type for a value close to 400 million euros, which will allow it to reaffirm its goal of reaching 500 million in revenue from these lines of activity in 2028.