Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Receives Fertilizer Plant Order from Oman

09-23-2004: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), with support by Sojitz Corporation, has received an order from Sohar International Urea & Chemical Industries S.A.O.C. (SIUCI) to construct a fertilizer complex at Sohar. The contract will be officially signed soon. The order, in the amount of approximately US$500 million, marks MHI's first plant consignment in the Sultanate of Oman. The facility is scheduled to commence commercial operation in the first quarter of 2008.

The complex will comprise a 2,000 mtpd (metric tons per day) ammonia production plant, a 3,500 mtpd urea production and granulation plant, and supporting facilities. It will initially produce ammonia from natural gas, and the entire ammonia output will be converted to urea for producing granular urea, the end product to be used as fertilizer. The plants will adopt process technologies from Haldor Topsøe A/S of Denmark, Snamprogetti S.p.A. of Italy, and Yara Fertilizer Technology B.V. of Belgium.

MHI has completed six large-scale ammonia/urea plant construction projects overseas in the past 15 years.