NATURAL GAS ESSENTIAL IN THE PRODUCTION OF FERTILIZERS
Source: Kemira GrowHow
The European fertilizer industry is the biggest single industrial user of natural gas in the European Union. Natural gas represents 50-70% of the total costs of nitrogen fertilizers. It is obvious that access to competitively priced gas is vital to the continued prosperity of a nitrogen fertilizer industry in Europe. Without a fertilizer industry of its own, Europe would be very vulnerable and would be subject to serious security policy concerns. This is especially important today with the growing challenge of unfair competition based on dual-pricing (the export price is higher than the domestic price) of natural gas from Russia and some countries of the Middle-East and North Africa.