MAIRE books new urea licence in €1.3bn project wave

MAIRE has announced fresh awards and scope additions worth about €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion), including a new urea licensing package that reinforces its fertilizer technology pipeline. The projects span Asia, Europe and the Americas across its Integrated E&C Solutions (IE&CS) and Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) business units.

Within STS, Stamicarbon – Nextchem’s licensing subsidiary – has been selected to provide licensing and the process design package for a urea plant. MAIRE said the project will use Nextchem’s proprietary know-how and “advanced process solutions to support clients improving efficiency and reliability across the fertilizers value chain,” positioning the award squarely in the premium technology segment for nitrogen producers.

On the engineering side, MAIRE’s IE&CS unit has secured a large onshore project for Tecnimont to optimise existing oil and gas facilities, including process units and utilities, alongside an EPC upgrade of an existing refinery to be delivered by KT. While not fertilizer projects, these downstream and energy awards help underpin group workload as it builds out its technology-led offer to nitrogen and wider process-industry customers.

MAIRE noted that more detail on the individual contracts, including counterparties and locations, will be disclosed once current formalities with clients are completed.