Fertilisers

Burrup Fertilisers Ammonia Plant
Scheduled for commissioning in 2004, Burrup Fertilisers is building a AUS$630 million ammonia plant on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula.	Commercial operation is scheduled for 2005. Once complete, Burrup Fertiliser's ammonia plant will be the largest of its kind in the world.

Burrup Peninsula
Location Map of Burrup Pennisula	Location Map of Western Australia	Diagram of Process at the Burrup plant
Pie Chart	Ammonia Tanker at Burrup

EC Erdolchemie
Product Diagram	Detail of the Plant (with workers)	Transport by river barge
Loading facilities

Helwan Fertilizer Company, Urea Production Plant, Cairo
The new Helwan plant in Cairo produces urea from the ammonia it makes.	Egypt's agriculture is based around the Nile and the Nile Delta.	The Helwan plant can produce 1,200t of ammonia per year, which is then reacted with carbon dioxide to produce urea.
Egypt imports around 900,000t of fertiliser per year but the government would prefer fertiliser to come from domestic sources.	Helwan is situated 30km south of Cairo.

Jilin
The Jilin Chemical Group Corporation project is a 1,000t/day ammonia plant located in Jilin City in Jilin province in Northeast China (next to the border with North Korea). This is expected to be equivalent to about 350,000t/yr.	The new Jilin ammonia plant replaced an older, less efficient plant.	Ammonia produced at the Jilin plant goes to an ammonium nitrate production plant also operated by the Jilin Chemical Group Corporation.
China needs ammonia to produce fertiliser for agriculture and would prefer its feedstock to be domestic, thereby encouraging plants such as the Jilin plant.	Jilin Province is in north-eastern China near the North Korean border.

Jose Anzoategui
Jose Anzoategui Ammonia and Urea Plant

Kitimat


Nantong
One of the buildings at the Nantong site under construction.

Omifco Fertiliser Complex, Sur Industrial Estate
The urea/ammonia production plants are being built in Oman at the Sur Industrial Estate. The government of the Sultanate of Oman will supply gas to the project from its Oman LNG plant located in Sur.

Pequiven Ammonia Plant
The amine process to prepare hydrogen for reaction; this will help the Pequiven plant produce 1,800t per day of ammonia.	Ammonia will be produced at the new Moron plant and used to manufacture nitrogenous fertilisers.	The Pequiven plant is in Carabobbo State in Venezuela.
The KAAP process is a more efficient ammonia process technology; the catalyst used is 20 times more active than traditional iron-based catalysts.	The petrochemicals infrastructure in Venezuela will have investment of $21bn over the next ten years.

Phosphate Hill
The Phosphate Hill fertiliser plant receives power from a nearby solar power plant.	Installation of the ammonia converter cartridge at the Phosphate Hill plant.	Phosphate Hill has its own water treatment plant.
Production of di-ammonium and mono-ammonium phosphate at the Phosphate Hill granulation plant.	Piping on the ground level of the phosphoric acid filter building.	The automatic fertiliser loading system at Phosphate Hill.
The main column structure for the rail load out bin at Phosphate Hill.

Phu My
The Phu My fertiliser plant is expected to have a production capacity of 2,200 tonnes of urea and 1,350 tonnes of ammonia each day.	At present Vietnam imports most of its fertiliser. The new plant should help the country meet more than a third of its needs from domestic production.	Map showing Phu My in southern Vietnam.
The rice fields of Vietnam require about 1.7 million tonnes per year of urea fertiliser to maintain crop production.	Urea is one of the most important chemicals in nitrogenous fertiliser for rice production.

Profertil Ammonia and Urea Plant,
The ammonia/urea plant in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, is owned by Proferti.	In January 2001 the new section began producing a record amount of urea.	The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) was carried out by Snamprogetti and Techint.

Richards Bay
Construction on the new sulphuric acid plant showing the gas section in the foreground with the cooling towers in the background.	View of the storage tanks for the merchant grade phosphoric acid (MGA) for export showing the two new large tanks nearing completion. Each of the new tanks will have a capacity of 10 000 tonnes of MGA.	View of the sulphuric acid plant stack during erection. This 100m long stack of mass 168 tonnes was lifted into position in a single piece using 3 cranes on 17 May 2001.
View over the construction of the new phosphoric acid concentration plant looking north-east towards the Richards Bay CBD.	View over the weak phosphoric acid concentration area looking north.	View over sulphuric acid plant site looking north-east showing the stack assembly.
One of three carbon heat exchangers being fabricated by SGL for use in the phosphoric acid plant.	A view of the attack-filtration section of the new phosphoric acid plant. The existing phos-rock store is in the background.

Safco
Safco is an affiliate of Saudi Arabia's Sabic. The company relies on the most advanced production technologies to ensure product quality, consistency and customer satisfaction.	This natural gas plant in Scotland, UK, is one of many existing gas plants around the world that uses BASF's aMDEA technology. The Safco ammonia plant, which will be the world's largest, will also include this technology.

Saudi Arabia Mining Company (Ma'aden)
Saudi Arabia's Sabic, a leading player in global petrochemicals, has taken a 30% share in the Ma'aden phosphate fertiliser project.	Ma'aden has adopted a long-term strategy for development and exploitation of the phosphate reserves Saudi Arabia's northern region, with a vision to support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to become a major supplier of phosphate fertiliser.	Sabic has extensive experience in providing technology and expertise in the area of nitrogen fertilisers.

Thal (RCF)
Thal RCF Fertiliser Unit.

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