Large scale project of Ammonia and Urea Production is being implemented in Garabogaz

Turkmenhimiya state enterprice chemical company is currently building the country’s largest ammonia and urea plant. The required feedstock for the fertiliser project, which integrates an ammonia plant and a urea plant, will be sourced from the country’s abundant natural gas reserves. Upon the commissioning of the facility next year it will be the largest fertilizer production factory in the country with a daily production capacity of 3,500 tons of granule urea and 2,000 ammoniac, most of which will be exported through the port of Turkmenbashi. 

The products from the project will be primarily exported, enhancing the country’s natural gas products, as well as expanding and diversifying its exports and sales. The construction of the plant, which occupies an area of 60 hectares, began in December 2014 under an agreement signed by the state-owned Turkmenkhimiya with a consortium consisting of the Japanese company Mitsubishi Corporation and Turkish Gap Insaat, part of Chalyk Holding. The plant is located just outside Garabogaz and it can employ more than 5000 employees.

Turkish company Gap İnsaat will provide construction of road, gas, energy and communication connections of the system as well as the 2.5-km conveyor system and road between the facility and the Bekdas¸ Harbour Pier to where the product will be transferred. The Japanese Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will jointly undertake responsibility for the installation, licensing of project production units, management of supply process, equipment supply with cutting edge technology and export of products to be manufactured to global markets. Gap İnsaat will deliver the basic engineering services as well as the entire construction work and supply, assembly and commissioning of materials accordingly. MHPS will supply two sets of its natural gas-fired H-25 gas turbine and generator. The power generation system is scheduled to go on-stream in June 2018. The order marks the first H-25 gas turbine to be supplied to Turkmenistan by MHPS.