Sohar International Urea & Chemical Industries SAOC
Omani fertilizer plant with world-class credentials SIUCI has established an excellent reputation as a supplier of high quality urea and SIUCI’s urea is recognized by discerning buyers all over the world.
Promoted by Sheikh Suhail Salim Bahwan, the founder Chairman of the Suhail Bahwan Group, one of the largest diversified business groups in Oman (www. suhailbahwangroup.com), SIUCI is one of the largest private sector green-field fertiliser projects in the world and represents the largest industrial investment by an individual within the GCC. Sohar International Urea and Chemical Industries SAOC
been annually producing over
(SIUCI) continued its excellent
1.3 million tonnes of granular
performance during 2012 and
urea. SIUCI’s Fertiliser Project is
2013 and further strengthened
world class in terms of state-
its position in the global fertiliser
of-the-art technologies, scale
market as a reliable high quality
of production, environmental
granular urea supplier.
protection, safe practices and
Promoted by Sheikh Suhail
energy consumption. The project
Salim Bahwan, the founder
uses natural gas as feedstock.
Chairman of the Suhail
Ammonia and carbon-dioxide
Bahwan Group, one of the
are produced from the natural
largest diversified business
gas in the ammonia plant. The
groups in Oman (www.
ammonia thus produced is
suhailbahwangroup.com), SIUCI
reacted with carbon dioxide in
is one of the largest private
the urea plant to produce high
sector green-field fertiliser
quality granular urea.
projects in the world and
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Since 2009 the project has
Urea is the most widely
represents the largest industrial
used nitrogenous fertiliser in
investment by an individual
the cultivation of various crops
within the GCC.
including wheat, rice, corn, 45