Fertilizer project news

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.

The revamp project at the Ammonia-4 plant has successfully passed guarantee test runs to confirm the capacity of 2500 tpd of ammonia.

The scope of the revamp of Abu Qir 3 includes a capacity increase from the current production of 1940 tpd currently to 2370 tpd and a reduction in emissions from the melt plant absorbers.

The scope of the contract includes drilling, installation and development of brine and process water bores at the Lake Wells sulfate of potash project.

BHP has spent US$2.97 billion on the project in Saskatchewan, Canada, so far.