Nitrogen

The announcement was made at a meeting at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Moscow.

KBR INSITE, a cloud-based remote plant monitoring service, will be used at the integrated ammonia-methanol plant in Beaumont, Texas, US.

The restart follows an interim agreement reached with the UK government to cover the costs to restart the ammonia plant and produce CO2 for the UK market.

The project will have an initial estimated investment of approximately US$2.4 billion during the first phase to develop a 2.5 million t fertilizer production unit, combining urea and NPK/NPS products.

Strike Energy will manufacture 1.4 million tpy of low carbon urea at the Narngulu Industrial Estate at Geraldton and will require up to 390 tpd of green hydrogen to complement the renewable hydrogen produced onsite.

The company does not have an estimate for when production will resume at the Billingham and Ince facilities.

Including optimisation of on-going maintenance, Yara will by next week have curtailed around 40% of its European ammonia production capacity.

No material damage has been identified to the plant following Hurricane Ida. Factoring in the anticipated restoration of power and utilities, the total outage is expected to be approximately 4 weeks from the date the plant was brought down on 28 August in anticipation of Hurricane Ida.

The complex was shut down on 28 August as part of contingency plans for Hurricane Ida.

The facility in Geneva, completed in 2017, produces up to 36 000 tonnes of nitrogen-based fertilizer annually.

The company will defer the turnaround at its nitrogen fertilizer facility in Coffeyville, Kansas, to 3Q22.

The US International Trade Commission ruled last week that there is a reasonable indication that imports of UAN from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago materially injure the US UAN industry.

Uralchem has provided an overview of the results of its operating activities for the first six months of 2021.

Acron Group has completed a comprehensive overhaul of its Urea-6 unit in Veliky Novgorod.

Mitsui & Co. Inc. and CF Industries Holdings, Inc. have announced a memorandum of understanding that will guide the companies in a joint exploration of the development of blue ammonia projects in the US.