Ahmed Attia

Schwerpunkte: Fertilizer

Egypt moves to link fertilizer feedstock costs to international gas prices

For producers of nitrogen-based fertilizers like urea and ammonia in Egypt, natural gas accounts for roughly 70% of production costs.

As the market enters a price stabilization phase, companies are becoming more sensitive to pressure from international buyers.

Egypt has opened its first biogas unit designed to convert slaughterhouse waste into renewable energy and organic fertiliser.

A UK company plans to invest nearly $2.4 billion in a fertiliser plant in Egypt that will use household waste as feedstock.

Misr Phosphate said that it will provide 1.25 million tpy of phosphate rock from its Red Sea mines to the plant.

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