CF announces further N allocations
CF Industries Holdings Inc. on April 16 notified customers that it will start allocating urea at its Medicine Hat, Alberta, plant, effective immediately, due to an interruption in supply availability. The notice asked customers to avoid scheduling any loading at the facility until the allocation notification has been sent out.
The Medicine Hat alert followed an earlier notice to CF customers on April 16 that the company was allocating UAN at its Courtright, Ont., facility, and that CF’s Woodward, Okla., nitrogen complex was temporarily out of service due to a loss of power caused by tornadoes that passed through that location on April 15. The tornadoes caused no direct damage at the Woodward complex, CF reported.
The nitrogen fertilizer complex at Medicine Hat is Canada’s largest, with annual production capacity of 800,000 mt of urea and approximately 1.1 million mt of ammonia, some of which is upgraded into urea. CF has a 66 percent interest in Canadian Fertilizer Ltd., which owns the Medicine Hat complex. Combined annual fertilizer capacity from the facility’s two ammonia plants and one urea plant is approximately 1.5 million mt and is shipped by rail and truck to the northern U.S. Cornbelt and to western Canada. Viterra Inc. owns the minority stake in the plant.