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Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO)
Joint venture majority owned by QatarEnergy (75%) with Yara International (25%). QAFCO operates the world's largest single-site ammonia/urea complex at Mesaieed, Qatar, with 3.8 million tonnes/year ammonia capacity across six trains. Feedstock is domestic North Field natural gas — among the cheapest in the world.
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Did you know2023
Qatar simultaneously exports LNG (gas as energy to power Asian and European electricity) AND uses gas to produce QAFCO urea (gas as fertilizer feedstock to grow Asian food). The same QatarEnergy natural gas resource underlies both. When global gas prices spike -- as they did in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- both LNG export revenues AND fertilizer production costs rise simultaneously for Qatar, while fertilizer importing countries face both higher energy costs and higher food production costs. Qatar's strategic position as a major LNG exporter AND ammonia/urea producer means that energy security policy (how much gas to export as LNG) and food security policy (how much gas to use as fertilizer feedstock) are decided by the same QatarEnergy/government entity -- a concentration of commodity control that few countries' governments or market participants fully model.
QatarEnergy ↗Origin2023
QAFCO (Qatar Fertiliser Company) was founded in 1969 -- before Qatar's massive LNG development -- specifically to monetize natural gas that was being flared or reinjected at Qatar's oil fields because there was no LNG export infrastructure. Qatar's early industrialization strategy used gas-to-fertilizer as a value-creation pathway: convert the associated gas that had no immediate market into ammonia and urea for export. QatarEnergy (then Qatar Petroleum) holds 75% and Yara International (Norwegian fertilizer company) holds 25%. The Yara stake is strategically significant: Yara is the world's largest fertilizer company by revenue and uses the QAFCO partnership to secure low-cost ammonia feed for its processing and blending operations globally. The Mesaieed Industrial City, where QAFCO operates, houses the world's largest single-site ammonia/urea complex -- 3.8 million tonnes/year of ammonia and 4.4 million tonnes/year of urea capacity in one geographic location.
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