Geleen, The Netherlands-Stamicarbon reports that Petroquimica de Venezuela SA (Pequiven), a unit of PDVSA, Venezuela’s oil company, has awarded it two contracts to provide a license and process design package to build two new urea plants in Jose and Puerto Nutrias, Venezuela. One plant will have two lines of 2,200 mt/d urea capacity each (Jose), while the other will have one line of 2,200 mt/d (Puerto Nutrias). The plants will feature some of Stamicarbon’s trademark elements such as Urea2000plusTM Pool Reactor and Safurex® stainless steel. The plants will also use Stamicarbon’s fluid bed granulation technology, which Stamicarbon notes for its very low formaldehyde consumption and unbeaten on-stream time, both delivering substantial cost advantages. The urea plants are expected to start production in 2011 (Jose) and 2012 (Puerto Nutrias). The urea plants are Stamicarbon’s first in Venezuela.
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