Category: Africa

Egypt’s $873 million green ammonia project in New Damietta has entered the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase, with pre-FEED studies for the marine jetty and hydrogen plant already completed, Zawya reported 7 April, citing a statement by the Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Company (ECHEM). The project is being developed by Damietta Green Ammonia (DGA), a joint venture between Norway’s Scatec, ECHEM and Misr Fertilizers Production Company (MOPCO). FEED work on ammonia export facilities is ongoing, while major permits and financing arrangements are still being finalised.

Dangote Group has lifted planned investment in its Ethiopian fertiliser project to more than $4 billion, adding NPK capacity and key infrastructure to a urea complex first costed at about $2.5 billion under a 2025 deal with Ethiopia’s sovereign wealth fund.

Millennial Potash has kicked off a four‑hole Phase 3 drill programme at its Banio project in Gabon, targeting resource growth to feed a definitive feasibility study due by end‑2026.

CF Industries and PepsiCo have launched a commercial partnership to cut greenhouse‑gas emissions in potato production by offering certified low‑carbon urea ammonium nitrate solution (UAN) to growers supplying PepsiCo’s Frito‑Lay snack brands.

Copper smelters are under fresh pressure as treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) fall amid tighter concentrate supply and rising smelter capacity, while record sulphuric acid values reshape smelter revenues.

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Indorama Corporation has signed a contract to establish a phosphate fertilisers and chemicals complex in Egypt...

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The government of Morocco has signed an agreement with the ORNX consortium to advance a $4.5 billion green ammonia project in the southern city of Laayoune, as part of Morocco’s ambitions to become a global hub for green hydrogen and derivatives. The development combine wind and solar electricity generation with hydrogen from electrolysis to feed green ammonia production. Under the terms of the agreement, more than 2 GW of renewable energy capacity will be installed, feeding 900 MW of electrolysers producing green hydrogen. To ensure operational stability and continuous output, the facility will also incorporate battery energy storage systems. In addition, a seawater desalination plant will be constructed to provide the purified water required for hydrogen production, addressing resource constraints in the arid coastal region. During its initial phase, the complex is expected to generate around 100,000 t/a of green hydrogen, which will allow the production of 560,000 t/a of green ammonia. The ammonia will be used both domestically in ammonium phosphate production as well as being exported internationally.