Bismarck—The North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission (APUC) awarded funding requests totaling $348,165 at its quarterly meeting July 19, with $100,000 of that tentatively going to the proposed nitrogen plant in the Northern Plains. The Northern Corn Development Corp., Fargo, was awarded $100,000 to assist in acquiring accounting, marketing, and legal services. The company will use these resources to develop a business plan and acquire the necessary equity to launch a plant that will target gas currently being flared in the Bakken oil formation. However, the APUC noted that funding is pending depending on the completion of contingencies. Also pending contingencies was a $75,000 award to Progressive Nutrient Systems, Fargo, to defray the costs associated to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a distributed modular ammonia synthesis process, and the business plan/economic opportunity for a modular distributed ammonia based system. APUC is a program of the N.D. Department of Commerce that administers grant programs for researching and developing new and expanded uses for North Dakota agricultural products.
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