QatarEnergy will build a world-scale urea production complex that will more than double Qatar’s urea production, playing a pivotal role in enhancing global food production and security. The mega project entails building three ammonia production lines that will supply feedstock to four new world-scale urea production trains in Mesaieed Industrial City.
As per the press release, the facilities, which are planned to be built, will more than double the State of Qatar’s urea production from about six million tons per annum currently to 12.4 million tons per annum. Production from the project’s first new urea train is expected before the end of this decade.
The announcement was made by His Excellency Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the minister of state for energy affairs, and the President and CEO of QatarEnergy.
Al-Kaabi said, “We have been producing ammonia and urea in Qatar for over 50 years. We are expanding our experience and further solidifying our position by this unprecedented mega project that will make the State of Qatar the world’s largest urea producer, playing a crucial role in ensuring food security for hundreds of millions of people around the globe, day after day”.
He further added, “Developing this project in Mesaieed Industrial City will ensure the optimum utilization of the excellent existing infrastructure for the petrochemical and fertilizer industries, including the city’s export port, which is one of the largest fertilizer and petrochemical export facilities in the MENA region. It will also establish Mesaieed as the urea production capital of the world”.
