Fertilizer project news

Major project status will allow the project to receive additional government support.

Western Potash Corp. is delaying completion of construction for the balance of its Milestone phase 1 project process plant in Saskatchewan, Canada, from July to the end of this year.

Veolia will design and supply two HPD crystallisers: one to grow 32 t of high-purity potassium sulfate crystals every hour, the other to recycle 54 tph of solids to yield the maximum potassium recovery.

The company's production target from the development is 400 000 tpy of muriate of potash over an initial 18-year life.

The Karinga Lakes potash project (KLPP) covers an extensive brine lake system over pastoral land, located approximately 250 km southwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

The ammonia plant in Ain Sokhna will produce 1320 tpd of ammonia to feed an ammonium nitrate plant in operation in the same industrial facility.

The authorisation is in advance of the EPA’s pending report on the Lake Wells sulfate of potash project's development proposal.

The company has reported sales of US$1.57 billion for 1Q20, a 3% increase y/y.

Hot mining recirculates heated saturated brine from the crystallisation pond into the caverns, and preferentially extracts the dissolved potash in the cavern which returns to the crystallisation pond, while leaving the salt in place underground.

Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals (CFCL), Gadepan, India, has successfully commissioned a new plant using KBR’s PurifierTM ammonia technology.