Urea Fertilizer Output of Turkmenistan’s Garabogazkarbamid Exceeds 989 Thousand Tons

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Urea Fertilizer Output of Turkmenistan’s Garabogazkarbamid Exceeds 989 Thousand Tons
The plant shipped more than 455.1 thousand tons of the produced urea fertilizer to foreign markets in 2021.

Garabogazkarbamid plant, the large urea and ammonia plant in the city of Garabogaz in Turkmenistan’s western velayat of Balkan, produced more than 989.1 thousand tons of urea fertilizer and 570.4 thousand tons of liquid ammonia last year.

The plant shipped more than 455.1 thousand tons of the produced urea fertilizer to foreign markets in 2021, the country's official media reported on Wednesday.

The plant’s urea is exported to such countries as Russia, the UK, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Kazakhstan.

Garabogazkarbamid plant is designed to annually produce 1.155 million tons of urea and 660 thousand tons of synthetic ammonia. Natural gas is the main raw material of the plant.

Commissioned in September 2018, the plant is equipped with leading Danish, Italian, Dutch and American technologies.

2022