Oklahoma based LSB Industries, Inc. says its new 375,000 ton ammonia plant is now mechanically complete at the El Dorado, Arkansas facility. The completion of the nearly $730 million project includes the installation of process vessels and rotating equipment as well as piping and valves. Utility equipment systems such as cooling water, steam generation, raw water treatment and air systems along with related piping have also been installed.
The Company said all that remains to finish construction at the ammonia plant is the connection of the electronic instrumentation wiring to the field instruments along with the painting and insulation of the piping and process vessels and the final grading and concrete containment for proper drainage of the process area.
LSBI said it expects the remaining expenditures necessary to complete the pre-commissioning and and commissioning of the ammonia plant and to put it into production to be in the range of $101 million to $125 million. As of the end of January, the company said its investment in the expansion project totaled nearly $730 million.
“We continue to expect ammonia production at El Dorado to begin early in the second quarter of 2016,” said Daniel Greenwell, LSB’s Chief Executive Officer. “We also expect that the cost of the project will not exceed the budget of $831 million to $855 million that we have previously disclosed..”
