Section: CRUNS Features

Changing markets for feedstock, shifts in demand, carbon pricing and geopolitics all help dictate the location of new urea capacity.

Nitrogen+Syngas ’s annual listing of new ammonia, urea, nitric acid and ammonium nitrate plants.

A review of papers presented at CRU’s Nitrogen+Syngas 2026 Expoconference, held in Barcelona from February 10th-12th 2026.

Methanol’s phenomenal growth in the early years of the century was based on its uptake into fuel uses and its ability to bridge coal reserves with plastics production in China. However, with these sectors maturing, traditional chemical end uses are becoming the main growth sector once again.

A complete list of all articles and news items appearing in Nitrogen+Syngas magazine during 2025.

The convection section of a syngas reformer is vulnerable to creep, corrosion, erosion, fretting and fouling which can cause deformation, local metal loss and failures that risk plant shutdown. Inspection access is limited, but solutions are available. Quest Integrity discusses life management of the reformer convection section to reduce unplanned outages.

The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is maturing rapidly, and a succession of governance, standards and policy initiatives has been launched since 2020 to tackle weaknesses in integrity and scalability which have constrained uptake and undermined confidence.

Europe is likely to become an increasing ammonia importer over the coming years as low global ammonia prices and high European gas prices squeeze producer margins, but CBAM remains a wild card.

Gas consumption is rebounding in Europe as prices stabilise at lower levels, while the LNG market continues to see large capacity additions.

Modular Plant Solutions (MPS) introduces the MeOH-To-Go® plant, a new approach to methanol production through small-scale, modularised plant design.