Rely partners with Verso on seven efuel sites

Brussels-based Rely announced an agreement with Verso Energy to develop seven e-fuel production sites to produce 500,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) per annum.

“The signing of this MoU is a significant step towards an extended partnership with Verso Energy, aiming to drive down the cost of e-fuels through first-class technologies and high-level standardisation. This initiative also confirms Rely’s presence in the European power-to-x solutions market,” said Damien Eyriès, CEO of Rely.

Of the seven planned facilities, four in France, two in Finland, and one in the United States. The agreement covers Verso Energy’s most advanced e-SAF projects, including the DEZiR (Petit-Couronne, Normandie), ReSTart (Tartas, Nouvelle-Aquitaine), EpHyne (Golbey, Grand Est) and LiCHEN (Saillat-sur-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine) projects in France as well as projects located at Oulu (Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland), Tornio (Lapland, Finland) and Jesup (Georgia, USA).

“This collaboration with Rely is a key success driver for our e-SAF projects. Rely, leveraging the support of Technip Energies’ top-tier engineering teams, brings unmatched experience in large-scale industrial projects,” said Antoine Huard, CEO, Verso Energy.

The joint statement issued by the two companies said this is a first milestone in Rely becoming Verso Energy’s partner of choice to conduct all pre-FID studies (basic engineering, pre-FEED, and FEED) for each of these plants, aiming to develop a standardised platform for methanol-to-jet production to reduce the levelised cost of the molecules through innovation, standardisation and replication.

This platform will integrate both Rely’s in-house technologies and those of partners. Notably, it will include the carbon capture technology Shell CANSOLVTM, which is Technip Energies’ exclusive technology for amine-based post-combustion carbon capture.

Rely is a joint venture between Technip Energies and John Cockerill.