OCP Group SA is set to establish two new subsidiaries in Morocco, after receiving the green light from the government last week.
The new subsidiaries are tasked with implementing the phosphate group’s decarbonization policy and meeting its non-conventional water needs, as well as providing part of the group’s energy needs, according to a Morocco World News report.
One of these two new subsidiaries, OCP Green Water, is a joint venture company with the objectives to generate non-conventional water at a rate of 85 million cubic meters (cbm) in 2023, and 110 million cbm by 2026, according to the report. The water produced will be used both by industry and local drinking water.
The second new entity, OCP Green Energy, is tasked with producing 30 MW for OCP Green Water in Benguerir by the fourth of 2023. According to the report, it is also tasked with producing 202 MW in Khouribga and Benguerir for the Khouribga and El Kantour phosphate mines, as well as supplying OCP’s downstream phosphates complex at Safi.
As part of its 2022 “Water Program,” OCP announced in March that it will use desalination units to provide the water requirements for its fertilizer production facilities in Jorf Lasfar and Safi.