Yara and BASF break ground on new Freeport ammonia plant

摘要

Construction has started on $600 million ammonia plant being jointly developed by Yara International and BASF at Freeport, Texas. The plant is expected to produce 750,000 t/a of ammonia when it comes on-stream in 2017. Yara is managing construction of the plant, which BASF will then operate once it is completed. Yara is also building a new ammonia tank at BASF's existing terminal as part of the project, whilst BASF is upgrading the terminal to allow the export of ammonia from the new plant.