JGC Holdings Corporation (Chairman and CEO Masayuki Sato) announced that its group company Brownreverse Corporation (President and CEO Takehisa Kanamaru, hereinafter "BRS"), which builds and operates digital twins, has signed a contract with Indonesian ammonia manufacturer and distributor PT Panca Amara Utama (hereinafter "PAU"), an ammonia manufacturing and sales company in Indonesia, has agreed to begin a joint study (hereinafter "this joint study") with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas (hereinafter "GHG") emissions, including methane, at the company's ammonia manufacturing base in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, and has now signed a memorandum of understanding.

Memorandum of Understanding ceremony held in Indonesia From left to right in the photo: Sho Fujisaki (JHD), Masaaki Hasegawa (BRS), Takehisa Kanamaru (BRS), Ken Saito (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan), Rosan Roeslani (Misistry of Investment of Indonesia), Kanishk Laroya (PAU), Rahul Puri (PAU), Arief Kadarsyah (PAU) (titles omitted)

To date, JGC Corporation (hereinafter "JGC"), an overseas EPC business company in our group, has been measuring GHG emissions at JGC's ammonia production facilities using infrared cameras, drones, satellites, etc., based on the memorandum of understanding concluded with PAU in June 2022*. The subsequent memorandum of understanding was concluded between BRS and PAU since JGC and BRS proposed a solution to improve the efficiency of facility maintenance by increasing the visibility of GHG emissions, using the measured GHG emission data for methane and other gases.

This joint study will digitally replicate the ammonia production plant at PAU to investigate maintenance strategies and operating optimizations that reduce GHG emissions. The measured GHG emissions data from each facility will then be mapped onto the 3D viewer "INTEGNANCE VR" developed by BRS to visualize the emissions. The study is scheduled to run for one year, from July 2024.

The collaborative work is aligned with the Asian Zero Emission Community (AZEC) initiative announced by the Japanese government in 2022.

Conceptual drawing of GHG emissions visualization on INTEGNANCE VR

In order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, it is necessary to accurately understand the GHG emissions produced during the manufacturing and transportation processes of transition energy sources such as LNG, hydrogen, and ammonia, and then reduce those emissions, in order to use these transition energy sources more cleanly.

Methane is one of the typical GHGs emitted in the production process of transition energy, which uses natural gas as a raw material, and because it has a greenhouse effect 28 to 84 times that of CO2, reducing its emissions has become a global issue, and efforts to reduce emissions are currently accelerating, particularly in Europe and the United States.

Through this joint study, BRS intends to promote environmentally friendly plant maintenance operations and strengthen the overseas expansion of INTEGNANCE VR.

The JGC Group will work on energy transition toward the realization of a low-carbon and decarbonized society based on its long-term management vision "2040 Vision" and medium-term management plan "BSP 2025".

※September 2022: JHD press release

Signing of Memorandum of Understanding regarding GHG emissions measurement at Ammonia Production Plant in Indonesia

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■ About INTEGNANCE VR

INTEGNANCE VR is a 3D viewer that makes it possible to plan and execute maintenance activities without having to draw up plans, by building a digital twin of existing facilities based on 360-degree panoramic photographs with 3D information. Equipped with measurement and spatial simulation functions, it makes it possible for anyone to draw up construction plans on their desktop without having to carry out any preliminary on-site surveys. In addition to automatically extracting piping using the Piping NAVI function, it is also possible to automatically draw piping diagrams such as isometric drawings and spool drawings, which were previously drawn by hand.

Access to various digital information from INTEGNANCE VR (Conceptual drawing)

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