Leigh Creek Energy Ltd., (LCK) Adelaide, South Australia, reported that its Leigh Creek Urea Project (LCUP) has become the first large-scale fertilizer project in the world to achieve Carbon Neutral status.
“Through our active participation in carbon offset projects, the Leigh Creek Urea Project (LCUP) has achieved carbon neutrality for FY-22 – the first large scale fertilizer project in the world to achieve this,” said LCK Managing Director Phil Staveley. “Our commitment to reaching carbon neutrality eight years earlier than originally planned not only aligns with the United Nations Global Compact principles, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, but also promotes our values and purpose as an organization.”
In other news, LCK reported that it has applied to the Australian Patent Office to protect its intellectual property rights pertaining to predicting and controlling syngas operations that it has developed at the LCUP project. The company said it is likely to be the first of many patents protecting proprietary information and adding to the value of the project.
LCK plans to establish a 1 million mt/y urea facility utilizing in-situ gasification (ISG) at the Leigh Creek Energy Project (LCEP), located some 550 kilometers north of Adelaide and overlaying the Leigh Creek coalfield (GM Jan. 22, 2021).