Gulf Coast Ammonia LLC’s (GCA) new 1.3 million mt/y Texas City ammonia plant (GM Jan. 10, 2020) is expected to start production soon, according to knowledgeable sources, though major players in developing the project either had no updates or did not respond to inquiries.
Those players include Lotus Infrastructure Partners (formerly Starwood Energy Group Global LLC), Greenwich, Conn., Mabanaft GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany, and Air Products, Allentown, Penn. The project was initially expected to come up in first-half 2023.
When the GCA project was announced, the company said it had already concluded long-term offtake agreements for all 1.3 million mt/y of capacity, with Mabanaft, which will be acting as GCA’s operating partner, expected to market some 500,000 mt/y. While never officially confirmed, major industry players believe that OCP has a sizeable offtake agreement with GCA, if not the entire remainder (GM March 18, 2022) of the capacity.