© 2013 The Texas Lawbook.
By Natalie Posgate
Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook
Australian fertilizer company Incitec Pivot Limited announced Wednesday that its U.S. subsidiary, Dyno Nobel Inc., will develop an $850 million anhydrous ammonia plant in Louisiana with the help of its legal counsel, Vinson & Elkins.
Heading the V&E team is Houston energy transactions and projects partner Kaam Sahely, who has assisted Dyno Nobel with other transactional matters. Other Houston V&E lawyers on the Dyno Nobel legal team are partners Peter Mims, Larry Nettles, Lewis Sutherland and Sean Becker; counsels Jim Penny and Scot Dixon; and associates Alan Alexander, John Slaybaugh, JT Carpenter, Sarah Hurt and Corinne Snow.
Utah-based Dyno Nobel has entered a contract with Houston-based KBR Inc., a global engineering, construction and services company with world leading ammonia technology. The contract is for the engineering, procurement and construction of the plant and will include a license of KBR’s ammonia technology.
KBR is sticking to in-house lawyers for its representation, including Chris Willburn and senior attorney Bryan Blades of Houston.
In addition to the V&E team, Dyno Nobel and its parent IPL Ltd are also using in-house counsel from their Utah and Australia headquarters.
The plant will be located in Waggaman, La. on the Mississippi River on a brownfield site that is part of Cornerstone Chemicals Company’s chemical complex.
New Orleans-based King, Krebs & Jurgens is representing Cornerstone in the project, which is headquartered in Waggaman.
The plant will produce 800,000 metric tons of ammonia per year. Production is expected to begin in the third quarter of calendar year 2016.
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