"Plants of this scale are not designed to ramp up and down at will," one plant operations manager said. "Operating under these conditions means you are burning more energy to produce less fertiliser, and that is a direct financial hit. Following Ras Laffan LNG Company's force majeure invocation, gas consumption mandates have at times been communicated to fertiliser units late at night, leaving plant managers scrambling to make abrupt load adjustments. "Sudden load variations of this nature are not practically feasible for large train-based ammonia-urea plants," another industry source said. "Several plants, sources said, were compelled to overdraw gas allocations momentarily to keep operations within safe parameters.A further complication emerged on the pricing front.

Source: Economic Times March 23, 2026 03:22 UTC