Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd signed a joint venture agreement for setting up an ammonium nitrate plant in Odisha through surface coal gasification (SCG) technology route.

MOUs and Agreement

Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd signed a joint venture agreement for setting up an ammonium nitrate plant in Odisha through surface coal gasification (SCG) technology route. The plant will be set up in Odisha’s Lakhanpur area of Coal India's subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd and is planned to produce 2000 tons of ammonium nitrate per day initially. The annual production is slated at 6.6 lakh tons of ammonium nitrate which would require 1.3 million tonnes of coal. The coal will be supplied by Coal India, while BHEL would bring to the table indigenously developed pressurized fluidized bed gasification technology for this purpose.


      The upcoming plant as backward integration would help in securing the raw material,reducing import dependency of ammonium nitrate.

     

     

 

     


Coal India Limited

CEO- Pramod Agrawal
Founded- November 1975
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