Producer
SABIC Agri-Nutrients
Saudi Arabian ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer producer; subsidiary of SABIC (Saudi Aramco majority owner). Plants at Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia. Produces ammonia using Saudi natural gas feedstock at highly competitive cost. Major exporter to Asia-Pacific. Building 6th facility: 1.2M MT/year low-carbon 'blue' ammonia + 1.1M MT/year urea. Saudi Arabia and Qatar together are primary Middle East ammonia producers (~4-5% of global capacity combined).
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chemical
DEF/AdBlue (Diesel Exhaust Fluid, 32.5% Urea Solution) →
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Melamine (Laminates / Concrete Superplasticizers / Flame Retardants) →
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Urea (Granular/Prilled, 46% N) →
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Anhydrous Ammonia (MAP / DAP Production) →
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Urea Nitrogen Fertilizer (46-0-0) →
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Ammonia Production
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Did you know2020
SABIC Agri-Nutrients produced the world's first certified 'blue ammonia' shipment — 40 tonnes sent to Japan in September 2020 for zero-carbon power generation. The CO₂ captured during production was injected into Saudi Aramco's Uthmaniyah oil field for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), meaning the clean-energy export directly subsidized additional Saudi crude production. A fertilizer company's decarbonization project thus routes back through the same fossil fuel infrastructure it claims to offset — the defining paradox of blue hydrogen economics in oil-producing states.
SABIC ↗Capacity2025
SABIC Agri-Nutrients quietly abandoned its planned 1.2M MT/year low-carbon 'blue' ammonia plant at Jubail in favor of a conventional ammonia + expanded urea facility, announced in Q1 2025. The revised plant will produce 1.2M MT/year conventional ammonia and 2.6M MT/year urea — expanding total urea capacity by 54% (from 4.8M MT to 7.4M MT/year). The pivot signals that blue ammonia economics remain commercially fragile: carbon credit markets are too thin and policy support too uncertain to justify the CCS premium at scale.
The Saudi Times ↗Origin2023
SABIC Agri-Nutrients traces to SAFCO (Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Company), established in 1965 as one of Saudi Arabia's first industrial joint ventures — originally a partnership between SABIC and Japanese trading companies to monetize Saudi natural gas. SAFCO was merged with SABIC's other fertilizer assets and renamed SABIC Agri-Nutrients Company in 2021. SABIC itself became 70% owned by Saudi Aramco in 2020, completing the vertical integration of Saudi hydrocarbon monetization from wellhead gas → ammonia → urea → global fertilizer markets.
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