Fertil brings forward urea plant shutdown

09 April 2008 11:06  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--United Arab Emirates’ urea producer, Ruwais Fertilizer Industries (Fertil), has brought forward the shutdown of its unit following unplanned technical issues, a company source said on Wednesday.

The Abu Dhabi firm’s 1,800 tonne/day prilled urea unit was due to be brought down for ten days from 14 April, to allow technical work to be undertaken to rectify some production issues.

However, the unit had to be shut down on 3 April after it was hit by unplanned problems.

Fertil decided to start the scheduled technical work from this date rather than mid-month. The shutdown was still expected to last around 10 days.

The company’s accompanying 1,200 tonne/day ammonia unit, was shut down for the same period after it also suffered production issues.

The nature of the technical issues affecting the units was not disclosed.

Fertil’s contract customers would not be severely impacted by the outage as an April shutdown had been planned for, although some delays were likely.

“We will still load the same number of ships as planned in April,” explained the company source.

“There will be some delays and some shipments will spill into May.”

Fertil has regular contract customers in several countries including Bangladesh, Iran and Sri Lanka.

 

By: Carl Roache
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