With natural gas at the lowest price in over a decade it has become economically attractive to use it as a raw material for making fertilizer. A company from Egypt plans to build a 2-million-tons-per-year fertilizer plant in Iowa.
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Iowa does not have any current oil or gas production, however, it is underlain by rock units that some believe have an outside chance of yielding oil or natural gas through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. This article in the Des Moines R…
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