Resumen de Short-term sulphur oversupply on the horizon
The development will bring the company's sulphur recovery capacity up to 3m tpa, expected in 2014. Transportaion of liquid sulphur from the Habshan plants will take place through electrically heated pipelines, storage of liquid sulphur, granulation, storage of granulated sulphur, and then by loading onto rail wagons. The project is under EPC phase of implementation.
Although sulphur supply may be currently increasing due to other avenues apart from demand for its end uses, it still remains inextricably linked to the fertiliser market. Figures from the IFA indicate that 46% of sulphur demand comes from fertilisers, 40% of which are phosphoric acid-based fertilisers, with the remaining 6% accounting for other sulphur-based fertilisers. 45% of sulphur demand is driven by industrial sulphuric acid uses, and 9% of demand comes from other industries.
"It is analysed that in most provinces of China, soil is seriously lacking in sulphur. Now the government has promised to take precedence to advocate the function of sulphur, thus an increase in sulphur-based fertiliser application is undoubted," the source, who did not want to be named, added.
