Production at Woodside Energy’s Beaumont New Ammonia facility was constrained to about 69% of nameplate capacity in Q2 2026 due to third-party feedstock availability, the company said during its quarterly earnings call July 28. Interim feedstock arrangements are expected to remain in place into 2027, pending progress on long-term third-party feedstock infrastructure.
The site was available and operating normally 92.2% of the time during the quarter, following Woodside’s assumption of operational control from OCI Global at the end of Q1 2026, the company said. Woodside acquired the project from OCI Global in August 2024 for $2.35 billion, citing expectations that global ammonia demand would double by 2050, with lower-carbon ammonia making up about two-thirds of total demand.
The site is only producing conventional (gray) ammonia currently. The start of lower-carbon ammonia production remains targeted for 2027, subject to commissioning of Linde’s low-carbon hydrogen facilities and startup of ExxonMobil’s carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) infrastructure, including approval of the relevant CCS permitting process.
Q2 sales from the facility were a combination of spot and term cargoes, with 24% supplied to the domestic market and 76% to the international market.
Beaumont New Ammonia has a production capacity of 1.1 million MT/year and is designed to support growing demand for ammonia, lower-carbon ammonia and hydrogen-adjacent products. Once operational, the facility has the potential to approximately double U.S. ammonia exports, the company said.
