Urea news
New Brunei urea melt plant begins production
With a nameplate capacity of 3900 tpd, the plant is the largest to be licensed by Stamicarbon to date.
Strike Energy starts drilling natural gas well
The primary objective of the SE1 well (and any subsequent appraisal wells in South Erregulla) is to delineate approximately 350 PJs of high confidence resource in order to secure the gas requirements for Project Haber, Strike’s proposed 1.4 million tpy urea fertilizer manufacturing facility in Geraldton, Australia.
PETRONAS Chemicals Group to build melamine plant in Malaysia
The company is to build a 60 000 tpy melamine plant in Gurun, Kedah, Malaysia.
Stamicarbon wins licensing and equipment supply contract for two urea plants in China
The plants will be built in Dongping, Shandong Province, for a local urea producer.
Operator training simulator to train operators at Gemlik urea melt and granulation plant
Stamicarbon’s operator training simulator allows for training of plant operators on start-up and shutdown procedures, day-to-day plant operations and various scenarios in the plant.
Stamicarbon provides carbamate condenser for ammonia stripping urea plant
The kettle-type condenser is manufactured from Safurex with more than 2000 U-tubes.
Metafrax Chemicals selects Casale as engineering partner for melamine plant
The second melamine unit is slated to become operational in the course of 2025 and will be fully integrated with an ammonia plant and a urea plant.
Stamicarbon delivers high-pressure stripper and pool reactor for urea plant in Russia
The high-pressure stripper and pool reactor are due to be installed in JSC Shchekinoazot’s new 2000 tpd urea melt and granulation plant located in Shchekino.
Stamicarbon tests remote commissioning using mixed reality technology
During remote commissioning of an N/C Meter in a urea plant, N/C Meter specialists from SPIE Nederland gave the commissioning instructions to a Stamicarbon Process Engineer wearing the Microsoft HoloLens in the plant via a Microsoft Teams call.
Fertiglobe completes IPO on ADX
Fertiglobe expects to distribute a dividend of at least US$200 million for 2H21 and at least US$400 million for FY22.