Ammonia news

KBR will proactively analyse operations at EuroChem's Kingisepp ammonia plant.

The facility will be located near Fertiglobe’s subsidiary EBIC in Ain Sokhna in Egypt and is a first step towards developing a green hydrogen hub in Ain Sokhna.

The plant will be an integrated facility using solar and wind energy to produce green ammonia.

The study will assess whether industrial-scale manufacturing of green ammonia at the Gibson Island fertilizer manufacturing facility in Queensland, Australia, is technically and commercially feasible on an existing brownfield site.

OCI and ADNOC intend to collectively offer 13.8% of Fertiglobe’s issued share capital in the offering.

NextChem, MET Development and Stamicarbon have reached an agreement with US-based Greenfield Nitrogen LLC to develop the first dedicated green ammonia plant in the US Midwest.

BASF has curtailed ammonia production at its production sites in Antwerp, Belgium, and Ludwigshafen, Germany.

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.

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