Urea news

The front-end engineering design and cost guidance provided by Black & Veatch is part of Koch Fertilizer's US$90 million upgrade of its nitrogen plant in Beatrice, Nebraska, US.

The new plant at the Lekki Free Zone in Lagos State, Nigeria, is designed to manufacture 3 million tpy of urea.

According to Vinuthna Bidar, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, "India will dominate the global urea market, with both the biggest number of new projects and the largest absolute capacity addition driven by its economic growth.”

Casale has replaced and modernised the high-pressure stripper in the synthesis section of the Pulawy Urea Plant 2.

The investment decision resulted from a feasibility study revealing significant potential for transshipment of fertilizers from landlocked Central Asian countries to western markets via Azerbaijan.

Ferkenso has signed financing agreements with Gazprombank for the construction of a plant to produce complex mineral fertilizers based on ammonia in Yangiyer, Syrdarya region of Uzbekistan, and a chemical complex to produce complex fertilizers in the Samarkand region of Uzbekistan.

The future unit will be more environmentally friendly due to the installation of a purification device on the granulation tower.

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.

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 design capacity of the unit will amount to 2200 tpd of urea once complete, which will increase production capacity by more than 70%.