Algeria Adds Huge Capacity for Ammonia and Urea

Algeria Oman Fertilizer Co. (Algiers), a 51-49 joint venture between Oman Bahwan Group (Muscat) and Sonatrach (Algiers), has signed contracts with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Daewoo Engineering & Construction (Seoul) to build a $2.4-billion fertilizer complex at Arzew, Algeria by 2012. The complex will comprise two 2,000-m.t./day ammonia trains and two 3,500-m.t./day urea production and granulation facilities. Haldor Topsøe is providing technology for the ammonia units, Snamprogetti is supplying its process for the urea plants, and Uhde is...

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