Section: CRUNS Industry News

Algeria and Oman have made a final investment decision to expand fertiliser production at the Algerian-Omani Fertiliser Company (AOA) plant in Arzew, in Algeria’s Oran province.

Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals (CFCL) commenced commercial production of technical ammonium nitrate at its Gadepan complex in Kota district, Rajasthan, on 20 August, the company confirmed in a stock exchange filing. The unit produces prilled high-density ammonium nitrate (HDAN) and has a capacity of 240,000 t/a. An integrated weak nitric acid plant at the same site has a capacity of 210,000 t/a and supplies the downstream unit. Larsen & Toubro executed the works on a lump-sum turnkey basis under a technology licence from Casale, it said.

Green methanol has begun to be shipped to Austria's OMV from the Solar Park Kasso plant. The plant is operated by a joint venture between Mitsui & Co., Ltd, with a 49% share, and renewable energy company European Energy A/S (51%). The plant, located in Kassø, southern Denmark, was inaugurated on 13 May 2025 and is based on hydrogen derived from solar electricity from the adjacent 304 MW Kassø Solar Park, which is then combined with biogenic CO2 and distilled to 99.9% purity, suitable for combustion engines and plastics production. The plant makes 42,000 t/a of green methanol.

Chinese power conglomerate Shanghai Electric has launched phase two of its Taonan wind-powered green hydrogen-based biomethanol plant in Jilin, aiming to scale up to 200,000 t/a.

NextChem, via its subsidiary MyRechemical, has been awarded a licensing, process design package (PDP) and engineering services contract by SKY Renewables Burdekin Pty Ltd, an Australian project development company focused on the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), for the syngas section of Project Lion, in North Queensland. The project will gasify locally available sugarcane […]

Topsoe has signed an agreement with First Ammonia, a company developing modular, commercial-scale plants to produce green ammonia from renewable energy sources, to provide Topsoe’s dynamic ammonia synthesis technology for First Ammonia’s planned green ammonia production facility in Victoria, Texas. Topsoe says that the project marks another important step toward commercial-scale green ammonia production in […]

The US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service on 10 August added anhydrous ammonia pipeline transportation rates to its AgTransport online dashboard.

Brazil's Federal Senate on 11 August approved the final text of the Profert bill (PL 699/2023), which will release up to BRL 10 billion ($1.85 billion) in tax-credit subsidies over five years to build new fertilizer plants or expand and modernise existing ones.

Chinese wind and green hydrogen group Envision Energy and South African chemicals major Sasol have agreed to run a joint design study on a potential green hydrogen system at Sasol's Sasolburg operations.

China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has shipped 3,750 tonnes of "HYGLOBAL" green ammonia from its Da'an integrated wind–solar–hydrogen–ammonia project in Jilin province to a South Korean buyer consortium, in what the company describes as the largest single-batch export of green ammonia globally.