AEEP

The Alliance Européenne des Engrais Phosphatés

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A closer look at the history, direction and expansion of Morocco's 🇲🇦 flagship company: #phosphate miner and fertilizer producer #OCP. It consumer 1% of the country's water 🌊 and 6-7% of energy⚡️! https://t.co/vTiXD8H49m via @theafricareport

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Graph of #phosphate rock and #DAP prices. Mid-2000s where the key years.

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Tunisian govt 🇹🇳 to invest $47 mln USD in technical studies of Tozeur–Nefta #phosphate rock project & complete Meknassy & Umm al-Khashabto projects increasing 📈 output to 5 mln MT. Production fell 📉 to 4 mln from 8 mln in 2010 following Arab Spring. https://t.co/KJoYVriMSk

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Lightning-inspired 🌩️ ammonia synthesis method makes #ammonia with no catalyst, using plasma instead. However, it is more energy-intensive that existing Haber-Bosch process, thus more work is required. #NH3 #greenammonia @ChemistryWorld https://t.co/c4gAEwe6u4

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By synthesizing #ammonia at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, the process is more environment friendly, avoiding need for lot of energy and related CO2 emissions, as well as process emissions from Haber-Bosch. #NH3 #greenammonia #CO2 #ETS

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UCI physicist 👨🏼‍🔬 w/ US Dept. of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory 🧪 invented novel way to convert nitrogen to #ammonia ⚗️ at room temperature 🌡️ & atmospheric pressure using atomically ⚛️ dispersed molybdenum as catalyst. #NH3 https://t.co/HooPvDgWzo

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Crux is to anchor single molybdenum atoms in a nitrogen-coordinated environment, mimicking a biological nitrogen process in which bacteria 🦠 converts #nitrogen gas to #ammonia with the nitrogenase enzyme. #NH3 #greenamonia

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US 🇺🇸 phosphate giant @MosaicCompany signs MoU with China's 🇨🇳 giant @sinochem_group for supply of phosphate rock and phosphate fertilizers, including premium products. Details to be worked out in a separate contract 📃 btn parties.
https://t.co/tIFvt8Cmdl

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In US 🇺🇸, fertilizer prices continue to rise 📈. DAP average price $508 per ton, up 11% since last year. MAP $533/t - 9% higher. 10-34-0 - 13% higher. https://t.co/SXNlS7vEG9

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Australia imports abt 400K MT of phosphate rock. Idea of the project is to replace phosphate rock imports from Morocco 🇲🇦, Jordan 🇯🇴, Egypt 🇪🇬 & Peru 🇵🇪 for Australian 🇦🇺 & New Zealand 🇳🇿SSP production. Possible exports to Indonesia 🇮🇩 & India🇮🇳.

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Ardmore, @CentrexMetals' phosphate project in NW Queensland in Australia 🇦🇺 🦘 'on track' to start targeted 30 K MT production for potential offtake partners. Possible capacity around 600K MT per year. https://t.co/7KZZYAdpPj

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According to Integer, abt 70% of global phosphate rock is used for DAP/MAP production, with next 13% for SSP/TSP. Only 2% go into direct application and 2% into nitrophosphates.

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Excellent article discussing pros & cons of turning chicken manure 🐔💩 into organic fertilizer vs. its use for biogas for energy ⚡️. Biogas plants require water 🌊 & leave slurry that still must be disposed of. Example of Bangladesh. 🇧🇩 https://t.co/htebu18WH7

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Prices of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer & urea projected to be up this spring in North Dakota. Abt 50% of N fertilizers in North Dakota is made at Great Plains Synfuels Plant 🏭 from CO, H from coal gasification & N from air. ☁️ https://t.co/7DryxPytX4

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On the science of humic acid and its role in the soils and fertilizing plants ! 🌱👨🏼‍🌾⚗️ Very informative. https://t.co/3rz9k3qr46

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Agronomist 👨‍🔬 w/ fertilizer producer #Koch complains of loose regulation 📚📃 in Canada 🇨🇦 moving the burden to ensure that fertilizers actually benefit plants 🌱 agronomically from producers to farmers 👨🏼‍🌾 & distributors. https://t.co/B8K4WWTGDO

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Fitch Group expects India’s 🇮🇳 fiscal deficit to go up📈 by 70 basis points 2019-20 if Indian govt rolls out relief package for small and marginal farmers 👨🏾‍🌾. In 2018-19, fiscal deficit is expected to rise to 3.5% of GDP https://t.co/5JuzvYGKsD via @FinancialXpress

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US #phosphate giant @MosaicCompany receives final green light for Florida 🌴🏖️ phosphate mine w/ 160.2 mln MT of #phosphate rock. Ona phosphate project is 22,483 acres, w/ 16,778 permitted for mining, extending life of Four Corners mine by 14 years.
https://t.co/hXZotTFETq

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Scientists 👨‍🔬 at Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University develop new process 🧪 for "greener ammonia" ⚗️ eliminating hydrogen & metal catalyst; using electrolytic process w/ plasma instead. https://t.co/mPJshvTVoP