Uhde and Sohar sign up to build $500 million fertiliser complex
3 Dec 2002
Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp Group company, has signed a contract with Sohar International Urea & Chemical Industries in Muscat, Oman, to build a large-scale fertiliser complex on the east coast of the Arabian peninsula.
The plants will be located at a newly created industrial site in Sohar, about 200 kilometres to the north west of the capital.
The complex, which should take 35 months to construct, will comprise of an ammonia plant and a urea plant with respective capacities of 2,000 and 3,500 tonnes per day.
The complex is being built on a greenfield site and will include all appurtenant offsites such as a power generation unit, seawater-cooling system, desalination plant, ammonia and urea storage facilities.
The natural gas extracted in Oman will be used as feedstock whilst urea produced at the facility will be exported worldwide as a nitrogenous fertiliser.
