Gas returned on 20 September but at 27-28 MMCF the pressure was too low; with enough pressure the plant restarted late on Monday night and expects 1,200 to 1,400 tonnes of urea a day.
CropsA raid at Shankarpasha ferry ghat on the Bhairab found 420.2 tonnes missing from two stockpiles held by M/s Total Shipping Agency, a BCIC urea carrier; its Khulna branch head was fined Tk 500,000.
CropsA parliamentary committee heard that the Ashuganj plant has also been shut for 19 months, and urged more fertiliser production at home and self-sufficiency in seed.
The seizure of 78 tonnes of urea bound for Myanmar at Mirsarai and Sitakunda in two days has sharpened concern over leakage, hoarding and artificial shortages of subsidised fertiliser ahead of the Boro season; the government says stocks are sufficient.
A seal leak in the RC pump and low gas pressure mean no production before Saturday; the 1,100-tonne-a-day factory made only 65,000 tonnes of urea in all of 2025-26.
The cabinet committee on government purchase has cleared the fifth lot of bulk granular urea from SABIC Agri-Nutrients under a government-to-government contract, at $391.66 a tonne.
After inspecting buffer godowns in Nilphamari, Mahendranagar and Kurigram, the BCIC chairman said three domestic plants are producing about 5,000 tonnes of urea a day.
Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited has been receiving gas to demand for about a week and resumed ammonia production on 9 September; once mechanical faults are fixed the plant expects to turn out 1,000 tonnes of urea a day.
