Ca Mau urea plant launches maiden products
By Van Nam - The Saigon Times Daily
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| Staffs gladly receive the first products at Ca Mau urea plant - Photo: Courtesy of Ca Mau Urea Fertilizer Company |
HCMC – The project of Ca Mau urea plant has launched the first commercial urea products after over three years of construction, reported the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, or PVN.
The inauguration of the new urea factory invested by PVN in Khanh An Commune in U Minh District in the southernmost province of Ca Mau is expected to partly satisfy the rising demand for urea in the Mekong Delta area.
Do Van Hau, PVN’s deputy general director, told the Daily his group’s urea products at first will go to local customers only as the plan to export these products has yet to be mapped out. The factory now has a designed capacity of 800,000 tons of urea a year, Hau said.
PVN started work on Ca Mau urea plant in July in 2008 with total investment capital of some US$780 million. A number of major products of the plant are high-quality fertilizers and pure CO2 for agricultural and industrial production and food processing.
As part of the Ca Mau integrated gas-power-fertilizer complex project, the factory covering 62 hectares uses natural gas supplied from Cai Nuoc basin’s PM3-CAA located in the southwestern sea area thanks to PM3-Ca Mau gas pipelines.
The Chinese contractor consortium comprising WEC and CMC have been in charge of the construction of the US$563 million engineering-procurement-construction contract with modern technology, mainly imported from Europe.
As of now, PVN has two large-scale fertilizer plants in the southern region, the other one being Phu My plant, with total output of 1.5 million tons per annum, meeting about 60% of the urea need at home.
Joining the announcement ceremony of Ca Mau urea plant were senior leaders including Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, former Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu and HCMC’s Party Chief Le Thanh Hai.