Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 8
By Sara Israfilbayova - Trend:
In 2018, the urea (carbamide) plant of Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR plans to begin ammonia and urea production, Trend reports referring to the company.
The company also noted that the construction of the urea plant has been completed by 99.9 percent.
The cost of the plant project is 770-780 million euros.
The plant will produce 1,200 tons of ammonia and, subsequently, 2,000 tons of urea per day. It is planned to supply a quarter of products, that is, 150,000-200,000 tons of urea, to the Azerbaijani domestic market.
The remaining part will be exported to Turkey, Georgia and the markets of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean countries.
South Korea's Samsung Engineering won a tender for construction of the plant. Samsung Engineering is a general contractor in the plant’s construction, but has no license for production of urea and ammonia.
Therefore, the relevant licensing agreements were signed with Haldor Topsoe (Denmark) for production of ammonia and Stamicarbon B.V. (the Netherlands) for production of urea.
Production at the plant will be environmentally friendly. The plant will have an autonomous electricity system. The plant will consume 25-26 MW of electricity per hour.
The urea plant will require 1.3 million cubic meters of gas per day for operation at full capacity.
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