Fertilizer project news

Primero Group has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design contract for the process plant at the Mackay potash project in Western Australia.

MHI Compressor International will supply turbomachinery to Koch Fertilizer's ammonia production facility in Fort Dodge, Iowa, US.

Highfield Resources has delivered a positive report from the environmental department of Aragón regarding the Muga potash project to the mining authorities of Madrid, Aragón and Navarra.

Following repairs, the subsequent re-start process was stopped on 8 May due to a coupling failure on the refrigeration compressor, upon which the plant was safely shut down.

Saskatchewan Mining and Minerals' upgraded facility in Chaplin is expected to produce 150 000 metric tpy of sulfate of potash, which will be sold to North American and international markets.

Incitec Fertilizers Pty Ltd has entered into a 20-year off-take agreement with Perdaman with a commitment to take up to 2.3 million tpy of granular urea fertilizer from Perdaman’s proposed urea plant at Karratha in Western Australia.

Scheduled for completion in 2023, the first concrete phase of the project will produce up to 625 t of renewable hydrogen and 3700 tpy of renewable ammonia.

The company expects to begin production in 2022.

At an online signing ceremony, the companies agreed to explore opportunities for implementing Haldor Topsoe’s technologies at Shchekinoazot’s plants.

The company’s Part IV Environmental submission has been approved by the Australian government, having been recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency with no appeals in January 2021.