During a very busy New Year’s reception, CEO Hans Vrijenhoef provided an update on the financial and technical achievements of the past few months. With new project agreements signed for Serbia and Norway, the two project managers placed pins on the world map to mark the locations where Proton’s clients will execute their projects with […]
PRESS RELEASE SANDNES, Norway 16 December 2025 Barents Blue AS today announces Proton Ventures as new partner to the Barents Clean Ammonia Project (project formerly known as the Barents Blue project). The Dutch engineering and project development company is a pioneer in the clean ammonia industry and will bring significant resources and industry expertise […]
New ammonia-fueled motors report virtually no nitrogen or sulfur oxide emissions and no carbon dioxide either. It’s not easy to capture lightning in that now-famous bottle, but it could be much easier if ammonia serves as a chemical bottle of sorts. The holy grail of sustainability is how to preserve inherently transitory electricity generated by […]
Proton Ventures is proud to announce that Proton Ventures President Hans Vrijenhoef appeared on November 16th in the latest episode of the docu-series EARTH on Bloomberg TV. The episode is also available on major streaming platforms including Vimeo, Amazon Prime, Google TV, and YouTube. The EARTH series highlights global innovators addressing today’s most pressing environmental and technological […]
Once upon a time, during the glorious years 2021 and 2022, the whole market believed that green hydrogen and green ammonia were set for a break-through, and that hundreds of projects would be quickly built all across the world. At that time, stocks of hydrogen companies were at all-time highs and money to finance project […]
Let’s picture for a second a world in which ammonia would not exist. In this world, the first thing that would be apparent is that there would be fewer people, a lot fewer people, likely only half as many people as we are today. That is due to the fact that ammonia is the base […]
Recently, we posted articles about the Hydrogen molecule and it’s potential. Now, at Proton Ventures, we are specialized in ammonia, which is a molecule composed of hydrogen and nitrogen. Now, we would like to look at the other component of the ammonia molecule, Nitrogen. Let’s start with a few facts regarding nitrogen: Nitrogen is all […]
The Human-Nature Relationship Let’s start refreshing with what Nature means. For this, let’s look at the figure below and picture ourselves as the running human being… … the breathing, the view, the skin sense, the song birds, or the contrasting silence… all that we can enjoy freely and openly… this is nature, and, further, this […]
Rotterdam, 18 June 2024 The Economist wrote in a tweet in December 2023 “Hydrogen is spectacularly useful. It could be used to power vehicles and generate electricity. It also emits no greenhouse gases, so it could help save the planet. But there is a downside: it is costly to produce.”. Let’s start by elaborating on […]
Rotterdam, 10 May 2024 Proton Ventures and LBC Tank Terminals are pleased to announce their collaboration in establishing a strategic joint venture aimed at developing ammonia terminal operations across Northwestern Europe and North America. This partnership unites Proton Ventures’ end-to-end knowledge of the green ammonia value chain with LBC Tank Terminals’ vast expertise in […]









