Nitrogen & Methanol articles from March 1998

Nitrogen & Methanol archives from March 1998

Hard lessons in economics.(effects of the Asian economic crisis on the fertilizer industry)(Editorial)
March 1, 1998... It is an old adage that 'you can't buck the market', and the more integrated and globalised the world's economy grows, the more difficult it becomes for countries to try and swim against the tide and ignore fundamental economic realities. In...

Methanol prices slump.
March 1, 1998... Natural gas prices on the US Gulf Coast dropped dramatically from November to December from an average of $3.28/mmBtu down to $2.56, and these prices continued to fall in January, down to $2.35/mmBtu. Although there were some methanol plant...

Bumpy ride for a market still in transition.(ammonia market)
March 1, 1998... The world ammonia market, always sensitive to changes in conditions, has crashed from a high of around $220/t f.o.b. Yuzhnyy at the end of 1996 to less than $90/t in recent months. Nitrogen & Methanol examines the fundamentals of the ammonia...

A new Gazprom emerges.(Russian gas company)
March 1, 1998... Over the past eighteen months, Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has put in train a restructuring programme which aims to radically transform the company. Nitrogen & Methanol presents its annual update on the Russian gas situation along with a look...

Asia Nitrogen '98 conference report.(conference held in Malaysia in Feb. 1998)
March 1, 1998... The Asia Nitrogen 1998 conference was held from the 22nd to 24th of February at the Pan Pacific Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The nitrogen fertilizer industry in Asia has seen great upheavals over the past year. The currency crisis has...

Revolutionary reactor.(Fast Engineering Ltd.'s ammonia synthesis reactor)
March 1, 1998... Dmitri L. Astanovsky and Lev Z. Astanovsky of Fast Engineering Ltd., Russia, describe the development and success of the company's novel ammonia synthesis reactor The main objectives for advancing existing and new ammonia plants are as...

Least cost approaches to ammonia plant efficiency.
March 1, 1998... Tom Evans investigates some of the latest ways in which ammonia producers can improve their plant performance without breaking the bank. In the increasingly competitive world of ammonia production, producers are always looking to improve...