EuroChem Group, Zug, Switzerland, has awarded a three-year service contract to KBR, Inc., Houston, for KBR InsiteR for its ammonia plant at Kingisepp in northwest Russia.
Utilizing a cloud-based platform, KBR Insite provides remote monitoring and advisory services to customers to help drive plant operations to top-quartile performance, said KBR, announcing the contract.
Under the terms of the contract, the Houston-based company will proactively analyze EuroChem’s Kingisepp ammonia plant operations to identify opportunities for achieving sustainable improvements in production, reliability, environmental impact, and energy efficiency.
The 1 million mt/y capacity Kingisepp ammonia plant started operations in early June 2019 (GM June 7, 2019), and has brought self-sufficiency for the EuroChem group in this key fertilizer feedstock.