Urea news

Strike Energy will manufacture 1.4 million tpy of low carbon urea at the Narngulu Industrial Estate at Geraldton and will require up to 390 tpd of green hydrogen to complement the renewable hydrogen produced onsite.

The complex was shut down on 28 August as part of contingency plans for Hurricane Ida.

The loan was used to finance Kima's ammonia and urea plant in Aswan, Egypt, which is currently operating at 80% of the ammonia line and 104% of the urea line.

The new granulation plant will be built based on the same design as the first granulation plant Stamicarbon provided for Acron, which was successfully commissioned in 2020.

The iUFC technology consists of Johnson Matthey's methanol and UFC (Urea Formaldehyde Concentrate) production processes integrated with KBR's proprietary ammonia process.

The US International Trade Commission ruled last week that there is a reasonable indication that imports of UAN from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago materially injure the US UAN industry.

Acron Group has completed a comprehensive overhaul of its Urea-6 unit in Veliky Novgorod.

The revamp will increase the capacity of the Abu Qir 3 urea granulation plant in Alexandria, Egypt, from 2000 tpd of urea granules to 2500 tpd.

With completion scheduled for 2024, the project will increase the total capacity of urea units 1-4 by 55%, from 2000 tpd to 3100 tpd.

The facility will be the first in Canada to utilise the Shell Thiogro technology, a patented process to make sulfur/urea prills for crop production.