Bolivian urea sales exceed US$ 50 million in three months of production

This YPFB release was published using machine translation.

Santa Cruz, December 30, 2021 (AN-YPFB). - Since the restart of operations of the Ammonia and Urea Plant (PAU), sales of the star fertilizer of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) reached 51.60 million dollars in three months, a period in which 86,509 MT of the fertilizer was produced, according to Gabriela Delgadillo, Manager of Derivative and Industrialized Products of YPFB.

Likewise, Delgadillo stated that the estimated income from the sale of urea in the internal and external markets for the 2022 management will reach 290 million dollars.

The situation of rising prices in the fertilizer market, worldwide, places urea with the best prices in the last 15 years; Thus, the price indicators of the main suppliers in the world market manage prices above 800 dollars per ton.

For the 2022 management, it is planned that the PAU will operate at an average rate of 85%, which guarantees a production of approximately 590,000 MT of urea. Of this volume, about 8% is destined to satisfy the demand of the domestic market (46,000 tons) and the surplus (544,000 tons) will be destined to export markets such as Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Peru.