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April 2007

Vol. 12, No. 16 Week of April 22, 2007

Agrium runs into problems with ice

Agrium’s Alaska spokeswoman Lisa Parker told Petroleum News April 18 that the company has run into a snag while attempting to restart its Nikiski nitrogen facility that will delay fertilizer production until early May. The facility received its first natural gas feedstock April 10 and was expected to be back in production within a week.

“The six-month shutdown has produced freezing problems in parts of the plant that weren’t anticipated,” Parker said. “We’re doing the repairs now, and hope to be able to complete them toward mid-to-late next week. We hope to start up again in the first part of May.”

Agrium, which closed the facility Oct. 23 because of projected tight winter gas supplies from the Cook Inlet basin, did not lay off any of its 150 Alaska employees during the shutdown.

—Kay Cashman






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