CF Industries Holdings Inc. said late April 21 that its entire Woodward, Okla., nitrogen complex is offline due to a problem in one of the boilers. CF said all of the plants in the complex were safely shut down with no impact on personnel, the surrounding community or the environment. CF estimates that it will take approximately 6 to 8 weeks to return the plant to normal operations. During the outage, the plant will execute the turnaround maintenance activities that had previously been scheduled for June.
The Woodward complex has average annual production capacity for 480,000 st of gross ammonia, 820,000 st of UAN, and 25,000 st of urea liquor. CF said its sales sales organization is communicating with customers to work through product availability and delivery schedule implications.