India: Customized Fertilizer Plant in Ahmednagar
India: Customized Fertilizer Plant in Ahmednagar
August 31, 2012 at 11:48 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
The State Government-controlled Maharashtra Agro Industries
Development Corporation Ltd (MAIDC) would be the lead project manager in
the setting up a customized fertilizer plant in the Ahmednagar
district, the largest of the Maharashtra state in western India, on a
public-private partnership basis.
Customized fertilizers are prepared by enriching regular fertilizers like urea, DAP and potash with micro nutrients (sulphur, zinc, and boron); they are customized for specific soil, crop and water conditions. Although they are 40 to 50 per cent more expensive than regular fertilizers, they tend to increase crop yield by up to a 100 per cent.
MAIDC is already manufacturing granulated mixed fertilizer and pesticides. They will first set up a pilot plant with an investment of about US$ 9.1 million. Depending on whether it is successful or not, the project would be scaled up eventually.
Years of intensive agriculture using standard fertilizers has reduced soil fertility. Customized fertilizers is one of the solutions for gaining back soil health. All major fertilizer players have announced plans for setting up customized fertilizer plants. Tata Chemicals has taken the lead by setting up a facility for manufacturing customized fertilizers with an annual capacity of 1.3 lakh tonnes at Babrala in Uttar Pradesh.
Customized fertilizers are prepared by enriching regular fertilizers like urea, DAP and potash with micro nutrients (sulphur, zinc, and boron); they are customized for specific soil, crop and water conditions. Although they are 40 to 50 per cent more expensive than regular fertilizers, they tend to increase crop yield by up to a 100 per cent.
MAIDC is already manufacturing granulated mixed fertilizer and pesticides. They will first set up a pilot plant with an investment of about US$ 9.1 million. Depending on whether it is successful or not, the project would be scaled up eventually.
Years of intensive agriculture using standard fertilizers has reduced soil fertility. Customized fertilizers is one of the solutions for gaining back soil health. All major fertilizer players have announced plans for setting up customized fertilizer plants. Tata Chemicals has taken the lead by setting up a facility for manufacturing customized fertilizers with an annual capacity of 1.3 lakh tonnes at Babrala in Uttar Pradesh.
Unites States: Egyptian OCI Plans a New Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant
August 30, 2012 at 19:40 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
Egyptian-based Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) wants to
build a new nitrogen fertilizer plant on 318 acres of farmland along old
U.S. 6 near Walcott, although they are also looking at three other Iowa
sites – Lee County, Middletown and Clinton – as well as a site in
central Illinois near Pekin. The plant would be built by Orascom’s
subsidiary Iowa Fertilizer Co., would be its second United States
fertilizer plant. In 2011, Orascom purchased Pandora Methanol LLC in
Beaumont, Texas. The plant was renamed Orascom Beaumont and produces
methanol and ammonia.
OCI is a leading international fertilizer producer and construction contractor, which traces its roots to a small family-run construction business, but today it is one of Egypt’s largest corporations with projects and investments across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. It operates five fertilizer production sites in the United States, Egypt, the Netherlands and Algeria, producing 7 million metric tonnes per year of nitrogen, 0.75 metric tonnes annually of methanol and 0.25 metric tonnes annually of melamine. They are active in 25 countries across the globe, employing 72,000 people worldwide and about 13 percent of its stock is owned by United States investors. The company has plans to split its construction and fertilizer businesses into two companies, a move approved unanimously by its shareholders last May. In addition to the proposed Midwest project, the company’s Fertilizer Group began production in May at a new plant in Sorfert, Algeria. It also has a proposed greenfields facility under development in Brazil. As of December 31, 2011, the Company’s subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities included OCI International-Cyprus and OCI Finance Limited, among others.
The USD 1.3 billion fertilizer plant being proposed by OCI would be the first new United States nitrogen plant built in decades and comes at a time when domestic production – but not demand – has dropped dramatically. The natural gas prices increases caused the United States nitrogen loose about half their capacity between 2000 and 2008. The cost of natural gas represents 70 to 90 percent of the cost of manufacturing nitrogen, and some plants were even dismantled and send them to places like China. But the fundamentals of the fertilizer industry are sound (in the United States alone the fertilizer business is estimated to be a USD 15 billion industry) and the demand for nitrogen has not declined, resulting in a significant rise in imported nitrogen.
In previous times, the natural gas prices reached a peak as high of USD 11 per million metric British thermal units, but now they are in the range of USD 2 and USD 2.50 and half of the United States nitrogen consumption is imported. So the OCI investment plan has a sound economic logic.
OCI is a leading international fertilizer producer and construction contractor, which traces its roots to a small family-run construction business, but today it is one of Egypt’s largest corporations with projects and investments across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. It operates five fertilizer production sites in the United States, Egypt, the Netherlands and Algeria, producing 7 million metric tonnes per year of nitrogen, 0.75 metric tonnes annually of methanol and 0.25 metric tonnes annually of melamine. They are active in 25 countries across the globe, employing 72,000 people worldwide and about 13 percent of its stock is owned by United States investors. The company has plans to split its construction and fertilizer businesses into two companies, a move approved unanimously by its shareholders last May. In addition to the proposed Midwest project, the company’s Fertilizer Group began production in May at a new plant in Sorfert, Algeria. It also has a proposed greenfields facility under development in Brazil. As of December 31, 2011, the Company’s subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities included OCI International-Cyprus and OCI Finance Limited, among others.
The USD 1.3 billion fertilizer plant being proposed by OCI would be the first new United States nitrogen plant built in decades and comes at a time when domestic production – but not demand – has dropped dramatically. The natural gas prices increases caused the United States nitrogen loose about half their capacity between 2000 and 2008. The cost of natural gas represents 70 to 90 percent of the cost of manufacturing nitrogen, and some plants were even dismantled and send them to places like China. But the fundamentals of the fertilizer industry are sound (in the United States alone the fertilizer business is estimated to be a USD 15 billion industry) and the demand for nitrogen has not declined, resulting in a significant rise in imported nitrogen.
In previous times, the natural gas prices reached a peak as high of USD 11 per million metric British thermal units, but now they are in the range of USD 2 and USD 2.50 and half of the United States nitrogen consumption is imported. So the OCI investment plan has a sound economic logic.
India: Oman was the biggest supplier of urea in 2011-12
July 31, 2012 at 23:18 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
Whilst in 2010-11, China was India’s biggest urea supplier,
accounting for nearly 38 per cent of its total imports, in the
2011-2012, the main supplier was Oman which provided about one-third the
imports. The weighted average cost of India’s urea imports in 2011-12
was US$ 481.74 per tonne, which was up about 47 per cent over the
previous year. This translates into total urea imports of US$ 3.77
billion.
India’s urea imports increased 18.5 per cent during the fiscal year 2012 vis-à-vis the previous fiscal. Most of the imports from Oman were through India’s long-term off-take agreement with Oman India Fertiliser Company, a joint venture between Oman Oil Company SAOC, IFFCO and Kribhco. Iran was India second-biggest supplier, followed by China. Iran accounted for 25.5 per cent of the urea imports, while China provided another 16.3 per cent.
India’s urea imports increased 18.5 per cent during the fiscal year 2012 vis-à-vis the previous fiscal. Most of the imports from Oman were through India’s long-term off-take agreement with Oman India Fertiliser Company, a joint venture between Oman Oil Company SAOC, IFFCO and Kribhco. Iran was India second-biggest supplier, followed by China. Iran accounted for 25.5 per cent of the urea imports, while China provided another 16.3 per cent.
India: NFCL New Urea Project
July 31, 2012 at 10:28 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
Hyderabad-based Nagarjuna group fertilizer company Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd (NFCL)
is planning to expand its fertilizer facility in Kakinada, Andhra
Pradesh, by setting up a 1.3 million tonne per annum brownfield urea
project. This will take up the total capacity of the Kakinada plant to
around 3 million tonnes per annum. The Kakinada facility currently has
two plants making urea and ammonia with. The new expansion facility is
slated to come up within the existing complex and NFCL is planning to
invest over US$ 0.91 billion in the setting up of the new urea plant.
The company is already understood to have sought a 2.4 mmscmd (million metric standard cubic meters per day) gas allocation for the expansion project by 2014-15 and has applied for the necessary approvals for the same. NFCL, the flagship of Nagarjuna group that was set up in 1986-87, manufactures and markets plant nutrients under the Nagarjuna brand, and they are the single largest private sector investment in southern India. NFCL has also signed a MOU (memorandum of understanding) with Nigeria, which is Africa’s biggest oil producer and has the continent’s largest gas reserves, to build petrochemical and fertilizer plants in the southern Delta state and in Lagos, the commercial capital.
The company is already understood to have sought a 2.4 mmscmd (million metric standard cubic meters per day) gas allocation for the expansion project by 2014-15 and has applied for the necessary approvals for the same. NFCL, the flagship of Nagarjuna group that was set up in 1986-87, manufactures and markets plant nutrients under the Nagarjuna brand, and they are the single largest private sector investment in southern India. NFCL has also signed a MOU (memorandum of understanding) with Nigeria, which is Africa’s biggest oil producer and has the continent’s largest gas reserves, to build petrochemical and fertilizer plants in the southern Delta state and in Lagos, the commercial capital.
Russia: Uralchem increases ownership in Perm
June 30, 2012 at 11:30 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
Russian fertilizer maker Uralchem acquired in the
beginning of the year an additional 41.2% of the shares of Perm Mineral
Fertilizers (PMF) reaching a controlling interest of 87.7%. Uralchem is
one of the largest producers of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers in
Russia. They are the second largest ammonium nitrate producer in the
world and number one in Russia and the second largest nitrogen
fertilizer producer in Russia.
Uralchem has capacities for the production of 2.8 million tonnes of ammonium nitrate, 2.2 million tonnes of ammonia, 0.8 million tonnes of complex fertilizers (NPK), 0.8 million tonnes of MAP and DAP and 1.2 million tonnes of urea per year. The company, which owns fertilizer plants at Kirovo-Chepetsk, Berezniki and Voskresensk, produced in 2010 10% more fertilizers compared to the previous year reaching nearly 4.9 million tonnes. In the 2011 Uralchem accounted for more than 16% of all Russian nitrogen fertilizers.
Uralchem was incorporated in Cyprus in May 2006. As at 31 March 2012 it was 95.5% owned by CI-Chemical Invest Limited, incorporated in Cyprus; the remaining shares were held by management. OAO Perm Mineral Fertilizers specializes in ammonia and urea manufacturing and the main products are primarily sold in the export markets. UralChem said first-quarter profit doubled as its acquisition of PMF boosted output. In the 1Q of 2012 they sold 204,000 tonnes ammonia as compared to 115,000 tonnes ammonia in the 1Q in 2011.
Uralchem has capacities for the production of 2.8 million tonnes of ammonium nitrate, 2.2 million tonnes of ammonia, 0.8 million tonnes of complex fertilizers (NPK), 0.8 million tonnes of MAP and DAP and 1.2 million tonnes of urea per year. The company, which owns fertilizer plants at Kirovo-Chepetsk, Berezniki and Voskresensk, produced in 2010 10% more fertilizers compared to the previous year reaching nearly 4.9 million tonnes. In the 2011 Uralchem accounted for more than 16% of all Russian nitrogen fertilizers.
Uralchem was incorporated in Cyprus in May 2006. As at 31 March 2012 it was 95.5% owned by CI-Chemical Invest Limited, incorporated in Cyprus; the remaining shares were held by management. OAO Perm Mineral Fertilizers specializes in ammonia and urea manufacturing and the main products are primarily sold in the export markets. UralChem said first-quarter profit doubled as its acquisition of PMF boosted output. In the 1Q of 2012 they sold 204,000 tonnes ammonia as compared to 115,000 tonnes ammonia in the 1Q in 2011.
India: The Fertilizer Industry Demands More Natural Gas
June 30, 2012 at 06:15 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
The Indian fertilizer ministry wants to encourage new
investments in the natural gas segment as the domestic consumption of
urea is expected to go up by about 13% to 34 million tonnes in five
years. The natural gas output from its most prolific field—Reliance
Industries’ D6 field in the Krishna Godavari basin–is declining.
Inadequate availability of gas is delaying many power and fertilizer
projects. The previous policy to encourage investments helped in adding
only 2 million tonnes of capacity as there was no certainty of getting
natural gas at a steady price over the long term. Policy makers are
hoping to address this hurdle by giving pass through status to gas
price. Compared to the domestic price of US$4.2 per million metric
British thermal unit (mmBtu), imported LNG is available at about
US$15-18 a unit. While the domestic gas production is declining, the
fertilizer sector’s requirement will go up by 65 million metric standard
cubic metres a day by 2014-15. As of now, fertilizers get top priority
in the natural gas supply, followed by the city gas distribution sector.
Power sector, the biggest consumer of gas in India, comes third on the
priority list for gas allocation despite its critical role in the
national economy.
There are different roads to increase India’s natural gas supply.
India has asked the USA to supply it with liquid shale gas, as it continues to reduce dependence on oil imports from Iran, which is targeted by sanctions from Washington due to its aggresive nuclear ambitions. India has pledged to continue reducing imports from Iran, which used to be its No. 2 supplier after Saudi Arabia, but as far as we know no specific target has been set yet. Shale gas development in the United States has turned the gas market there from shortage to glut, and cheap US LNG export projects are soon expected to provide stiff competition for Australian LNG export developments. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that China holds the world’s largest shale gas reserves, with 1,275 trillion cubic feet, followed by the United States at 862 trillion cubic feet.
Another supply road could come from Turkmenistan through a 1,700 km cross-border pipeline passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan. While the transportation charges for gas would be decided by the consortium of companies that would construct the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) pipeline, India would pay a US$0.50 per million metric British thermal unit (mmBtu) transit fee to Afghanistan and Pakistan for letting gas through their territory. In spite of this charges charges, the price India would pay to the supplier is expected to be lower than the US$14-16 per unit of gas now available in the global spot market. India is estimated to get 38 mmscmd and state-owned gas transporter Gail India would lift the gas for the local consumers.
There are different roads to increase India’s natural gas supply.
India has asked the USA to supply it with liquid shale gas, as it continues to reduce dependence on oil imports from Iran, which is targeted by sanctions from Washington due to its aggresive nuclear ambitions. India has pledged to continue reducing imports from Iran, which used to be its No. 2 supplier after Saudi Arabia, but as far as we know no specific target has been set yet. Shale gas development in the United States has turned the gas market there from shortage to glut, and cheap US LNG export projects are soon expected to provide stiff competition for Australian LNG export developments. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that China holds the world’s largest shale gas reserves, with 1,275 trillion cubic feet, followed by the United States at 862 trillion cubic feet.
Another supply road could come from Turkmenistan through a 1,700 km cross-border pipeline passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan. While the transportation charges for gas would be decided by the consortium of companies that would construct the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) pipeline, India would pay a US$0.50 per million metric British thermal unit (mmBtu) transit fee to Afghanistan and Pakistan for letting gas through their territory. In spite of this charges charges, the price India would pay to the supplier is expected to be lower than the US$14-16 per unit of gas now available in the global spot market. India is estimated to get 38 mmscmd and state-owned gas transporter Gail India would lift the gas for the local consumers.
Canada: New Nitrogen Complex Joint Venture
June 30, 2012 at 03:49 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative Ltd (Iffco)
wholly owned Dubai-based subsidiary, Kisan International Trading FZE,
and a Canadian partner, are setting up a gas-based ammonia-urea complex
in Canada. The complex is likely to be located in eastern Canada and
will comprise two ammonia units, a couple of urea plants, and a
dedicated jetty for export. The envisaged initial capacity for two
single-stream ammonia plants would be 2,200 tonnes a day each. The urea
plants will have a capacity of around 4,000 tonnes a day each (which may
have two sub-streams). The proposed jetty would have to handle ammonia
at a throughput of 1,000 tonnes an hour and urea at 1,200-1,500 tonnes
an hour. Construction work is expected to take three years.
Ghana: Negotiations on Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant J-V
May 30, 2012 at 23:25 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
In 2010 the governments of Ghana and India signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) for the setting up of a fertilizer plant in
Ghana’s western region, where gas and oil are available from commercial
production. Both governments are working hard to conclude the deal, and
it has been hinted it could be reached the final agreement by the end of
the current year. India’s overseas attempts in promoting foreign
fertilizer ventures, is driven by India’s cabinet, on May 19th, 2011,
more than doubled the price of gas sold to makers of fertilizer.
Mumbai-based IFFCO (Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited), the country largest fertilizer seller, plans to secure fuel for the project from Ghana Oil Company. Estimated Ghana oil reserves have jumped to almost 700 million barrels.
The plant, when established, will have the capacity to produce one million metric tonnes of fertilizer. Mumbai-based Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd., India’s biggest state-run urea maker, is involved in the implementation of the project.
India is one of the major trading partners of Ghana, which is the world’s third-largest cocoa producer, and the second global exporter. Agriculture accounts for roughly one-quarter of the GDP of Ghana and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders. Among the important constraints to increased fertilizer use are inadequate and expensive credit, unsatisfactory marketing arrangements for the produce, the relatively small area under irrigation, insufficient funding of agricultural projects and inefficient use of fertilizers by farmers. Only 0.2 percent of the cultivated land is irrigated whereas several large irrigation schemes are underutilized.
The plant, when established, will have the capacity to produce one million metric tonnes of fertilizer. Mumbai-based Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd., India’s biggest state-run urea maker, is involved in the implementation of the project.
India is one of the major trading partners of Ghana, which is the world’s third-largest cocoa producer, and the second global exporter. Agriculture accounts for roughly one-quarter of the GDP of Ghana and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders. Among the important constraints to increased fertilizer use are inadequate and expensive credit, unsatisfactory marketing arrangements for the produce, the relatively small area under irrigation, insufficient funding of agricultural projects and inefficient use of fertilizers by farmers. Only 0.2 percent of the cultivated land is irrigated whereas several large irrigation schemes are underutilized.
India: ONGC to set up urea manufacturing unit
May 30, 2012 at 06:30 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
Last year the oil giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC)
discovered huge gas reserves at Khobal, near the Assam-Agartala
National Highway (NH-44). Last April ONGC official authorities stated
they had decided to set up a urea fertilizer manufacturing unit in North
Tripura district, in the border with Bangladesh. The region has nearly
70,000 hectares of gross area under cultivation. With the commissioning
of the project the demand for urea fertilizer will be met not only for
Tripura but also for the entire north-east region and a large chunk of
the fertilizer could be exported to the neighboring Bangladesh. The site
for establishing the project has been selected at Khobal considering
close proximity to the Khobal gas field from where the natural gas
(hydro carbon) would be supplied. At least six big investors expressed
their interest in the funding of the fertilizer project.
India: New Nitrogen Factory Planned in Burdwan
May 29, 2012 at 23:59 (Fertilizers, Nitrogenous Fertilizers)
The Matix Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd. has acquired
land for the setting up of a nitrogen fertilizer plant at the Panagarh
Industrial Park in Burdwan district, West Bengal. The company is
expected to start commissioning the production unit sometime in 2013,
and, in a first phase, it is likely to meet West Bengal’s demand for
nearly 1.3 million tonnes of urea. The capacity is expected to become 3
million tonnes of urea by 2014. The fertilizer unit will use coal bed
methane (CBM) as feedstock, and the cost of the project is of nearly one
billion US$.The total Indian urea production stood at 22 million tonnes in 2010-11, as against the annual demand of 28-29 million tonnes. The gap of 6-7 milion tonnes is met through imports. The Indian fertilizer ministry estimates say that by 2016-17, this demand could touch 34 mt.
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