Calgary—Agrium Inc.’s Carseland, Alberta, nitrogen plant, which has been down for maintenance, returned to production March 23, 2012. The company said it is currently operating at 80 percent of capacity and lost some 56,000 mt of urea due to the five-week outage. In other news, Agrium confirms that there has been positive movement toward the start-up of the MOPCO nitrogen complex in Egypt, which was idled late last year due to local unrest and complaints about environmental concerns regarding the expansion at the facility. However, to date, there is not an official start-up date for the complex, which is 26 percent owned by Agrium.
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