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OCI Beaumont received permit for Nederland expansion Orascom Construction Industries Beaumont LLC (OCI Beaumont) received the final green house gas Prevention of Significant Deterioration construction permit from the US environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the expansion of its methanol and ammonia plants located in Nederland, Texas, USA. Formally known as Pandora Methanol LLC, OCI Beaumont took […]
Cameroon – Congo – Equatorial Guinea – Gabon Key Projects and Business Highlights On the Southern part of the Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon saw major projects moving forward on the first half 2013 at the initiatives of major and junior companies involving Chevron, Compania Nacional de Petroleos de Guinea Ecuatorial (GE Petrol), […]
Russian EuroChem to profit from US shale gas supply The Moscow-based company EuroChem signed an agreement with the State of Louisiana to invest $1.5 billion capital expenditure to build a greenfield fertilizer plant along the Mississippi River in USA. Established only in 2001, EuroChem has grown up very fast over its 12 years of life in […]
KBR to provide PurifierTM Ammonia technology Dyno Nobel Louisiana Ammonia LLC, the US subsidiary of Australian group Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL), made the final investment decision (FID) to build a new nitrogen-based fertilizer plant in Louisiana, USA. In order to optimize its $850 million capital expenditure, IPL selected an existing chemical complex in Waggaman, Louisiana, to […]
Saipem won EPC contract for Nigeria Edo fertilizer Based in Lagos, Nigeria, the Dangote Group (Dangote) has selected the Indian Tata Consulting Engineering company as project manager consultant (PMC) for its Edo Fertilizer project in Nigeria. Estimated to require $1.9 billion capital expenditure, this Edo Fertilizer project is given as to build the largest Fertilizer plant in Africa. […]
Mitsui, Toyo and Unico study $2 billion fertilizer project A Japanese consortium made of Mitsui, Toyo Engineering Corporation (Toyo) and the consulting company Unico International Corporation (Unico) is working on a greenfield $2 billion fertilizer plant in the South of Iraq. This project comes while the: – Houston-based engineering company KBR is revamping and expanding […]
Ohio Valley to build $1 billion ammonia-urea plant Ohio Valley Resources LLC (OVR) awarded KBR for the license and the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract of fertilizer project in Indiana. As part of the FEED contract, KBR is also mandated to the call for tender of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract […]
Definition Nitrogen Fertilizer refers to one of the most common categories of fertilizers produced out of nitrogen (N) chemical combinations. To be considered as an organic fertilizer, the plant nutrient must contain 5% minimum of nitrogen. Comments Nitrogen is an inert gas representing 78% of the earth atmosphere. As inert gas in the form we breath […]
