The Algerian company SORFERT Algérie Spa has commissioned Uhde to provide comprehensive licensing, engineering and supply services as part of a contract to build a large fertiliser complex in Arzew, some 350km north-west of the Algerian capital Algiers.
SORFERT Algérie is investing some US$2billion in the new fertiliser complex, which will comprise two ammonia plants with respective production capacities of 2,200 tonnes/day and a urea plant with a production capacity of 3,450 tonnes/day. The plant complex will also include numerous offsites and auxiliaries, such as the required storage and shipping facilities. Plant completion is scheduled for 2011.
"In terms of its size, this is a landmark contract for our company and not only reiterates the immense trust shown by the fertiliser industry in Uhde and its leading-edge plants, but also underlines our excellent partnership with customers in the region," said Mr Klaus Schneiders, Chairman of Uhde's Executive Board.
The ammonia plant will be based on Uhde's proprietary ammonia process while the urea plant will use Netherlands-based Stamicarbon's synthesis process. The licence for the fluid-bed urea granulation process will be supplied by Uhde Fertilizer Technology, the Netherlands, who took over the exclusive licence rights for this technology from Yara Fertilizer Technology in 2005. All selected processes are particularly environment-friendly and meet the stringent Algerian and European standards.
SORFERT Algérie will mainly use the more than 1.1 million tonnes per year of urea fertiliser and the around 750,000 tonnes of excess ammonia to serve the export markets. Domestic sources of natural gas will be used as feedstock.
SORFERT Algérie is a joint venture under the leadership of Orascom Construction Industries Algérie, a subsidiary company of the Egyptian construction group Orascom Construction Industries, and the Algerian oil and gas group Sonatrach.
Uhde is a company in the Technologies segment of the ThyssenKrupp Group and has a workforce of more than 4,800 employees worldwide. The company's activities focus on the engineering and construction of chemical and other industrial plants in the following fields: fertilisers; electrolysis; gas technologies; oil, coal and residue gasification; refining technologies; organic intermediates, polymers and synthetic fibres; and also coke plant and high-pressure technologies. We also provide our customers with professional services and comprehensive solutions in all areas of industrial plant operation.
SORFERT Algérie is investing some US$2billion in the new fertiliser complex, which will comprise two ammonia plants with respective production capacities of 2,200 tonnes/day and a urea plant with a production capacity of 3,450 tonnes/day. The plant complex will also include numerous offsites and auxiliaries, such as the required storage and shipping facilities. Plant completion is scheduled for 2011.
"In terms of its size, this is a landmark contract for our company and not only reiterates the immense trust shown by the fertiliser industry in Uhde and its leading-edge plants, but also underlines our excellent partnership with customers in the region," said Mr Klaus Schneiders, Chairman of Uhde's Executive Board.
The ammonia plant will be based on Uhde's proprietary ammonia process while the urea plant will use Netherlands-based Stamicarbon's synthesis process. The licence for the fluid-bed urea granulation process will be supplied by Uhde Fertilizer Technology, the Netherlands, who took over the exclusive licence rights for this technology from Yara Fertilizer Technology in 2005. All selected processes are particularly environment-friendly and meet the stringent Algerian and European standards.
SORFERT Algérie will mainly use the more than 1.1 million tonnes per year of urea fertiliser and the around 750,000 tonnes of excess ammonia to serve the export markets. Domestic sources of natural gas will be used as feedstock.
SORFERT Algérie is a joint venture under the leadership of Orascom Construction Industries Algérie, a subsidiary company of the Egyptian construction group Orascom Construction Industries, and the Algerian oil and gas group Sonatrach.
Uhde is a company in the Technologies segment of the ThyssenKrupp Group and has a workforce of more than 4,800 employees worldwide. The company's activities focus on the engineering and construction of chemical and other industrial plants in the following fields: fertilisers; electrolysis; gas technologies; oil, coal and residue gasification; refining technologies; organic intermediates, polymers and synthetic fibres; and also coke plant and high-pressure technologies. We also provide our customers with professional services and comprehensive solutions in all areas of industrial plant operation.
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