OCI Plans Blue NH3 Production at Beaumont

OCI NV, Amsterdam, reports it continues to expand its offering of low carbon products to its customers, and will be able to produce blue ammonia at OCI Beaumont, Texas, up to the full ammonia production capacity of 365,000 mt/y, starting in the second half of 2021, according to its first-quarter financial report released on May 5. It said it recently signed one agreement and one Letter of Intent (LOI) with two major industrial gases companies for the supply of low carbon hydrogen to the plant. Decarbonizing the feedstock supply will allow OCI Beaumont to reduce its carbon footprint and offer both blue ammonia and bio-methanol to OCI’s downstream customers. OCI already produces green ammonia at OCI Nitrogen in the Netherlands.