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BASF, Yara Pick Freeport, Texas

by Alexander H. Tullo
May 19, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 20

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BASF’s Freeport, Texas, complex.
BASF’s Freeport, Texas, complex.
Credit: BASF
BASF’s Freeport, Texas, complex.

BASF and Yara have picked Freeport, Texas, as the site for their 750,000-metric-ton-per-year ammonia plant, which will take advantage of low-cost natural gas feedstocks from shale. BASF intends to use the ammonia to make downstream chemicals. The company is also mulling a U.S. methanol-to-propylene plant (C&EN, May 12, page 16). Yara wants to boost its presence in the U.S. fertilizer market.

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