CF Industries believes that we have an opportunity to strengthen our existing business and set the Company on a meaningful growth trajectory
We do so by investing in clean energy initiatives that focus on doing what we do best - produce ammonia and ammonia-derived products - while significantly reducing the carbon emissions associated with the production of ammonia. Our strategic focus on decarbonizing our operations reduces our environmental impact and enables us to produce products with a lower carbon intensity, unlocking their use for clean energy purposes, from power generation and maritime fuel to reducing the carbon footprint of food production.
Low-Carbon Ammonia Capacity Growth
CF Industries Holdings, Inc., announced in April 2025 that it has formed a joint venture with JERA Co., Inc., Japan’s largest energy company, and Mitsui & Co., Inc., a leading global investment and trading company, for the construction, production and offtake of low-carbon ammonia.
The joint venture will construct at CF Industries’ Blue Point Complex in Louisiana an autothermal reforming (ATR) ammonia production facility with a carbon dioxide dehydration and compression unit at the site to prepare captured CO2 for transportation and sequestration. The joint venture represents tangible progress towards building a reliable and affordable low-carbon ammonia value chain to meet what the partners expect to be robust global demand for low-carbon ammonia for both traditional and new applications.
Landmark Carbon Capture and Sequestration Projects
CF Industries is leveraging carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology to significantly reduce CO2 emissionsm, which are a byproduct of the ammonia production process, from its manufacturing network. We currently have two projects in flight that, when operational, will enable 2.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere to be sequestered in permanent geologic storage.
Construction in progress for Donaldsonville Dehydration and Compression Unit
Completed cooling tower and compressor foundations, along with pipe racks for CO2 and utility piping being erected (August 2024).
Donaldsonville Complex CCS Project
CF Industries is investing approximately $200 million to construct a carbon dioxide dehydration and compression unit at its Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Complex to enable the transport and sequestration of carbon dioxide in permanent geologic storage. Beginning in 2025, our invesmtent in CCS will result in the safe and secure sequestration deep underground of up to 2 million tons of CO2 annually that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere. The impact is equivalent to removing emissions from more than 445,000 gasoline powered cars – about one-third of the gasoline-powered cars in operation in Louisiana today – from the road each year.
ExxonMobil will transport and sequester the carbon dioxide.
Yazoo City, Mississippi, Complex
CF Industries' Yazoo City, Mississippi, Complex is the site of the Company's second major carbon capture and sequestration project.
Yazoo City Complex CCS Project
In July 2024, CF Industries announced that it was moving forward with a carbon capture and sequestration project at its Yazoo City, Mississippi, Complex that is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere from the facility by up to 500,000 metric tons annually. As part of the project, the Company has signed a definitive commercial agreement with ExxonMobil for the transport and sequestration in permanent geologic storage of the CO2. Sequestration is expected to start in 2028.
CF Industries will invest approximately $100 million into its Yazoo City Complex to build a CO2 dehydration and compression unit to enable up to 500,000 metric tons of CO2 generated as a byproduct of the ammonia production process and subsequently captured to be transported and stored.
Carbon Capture and Sequestration Overview
Helping Decarbonize the Agriculture Supply Chain
CF Industries is leveraging its projects to decarbonize its manufacturing network to help food and ethanol companies credibly and quantifiably reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains.
Low-Carbon Fertilizer Alliance
The Low Carbon Fertilizer Alliance is a collaborative initiative designed to help reduce emissions in agricultural supply chains.
Managed by 3Degrees, the Alliance leverages decades of expertise in greenhouse gas strategy and agricultural emissions reductions by bringing together organizations in the food, beverage, and apparel industries. The Alliance is supported by founding member Mars, Inc., alongside three additional Fortune 200 food companies, with CF Industries—the largest producer of nitrogen fertilizers in North America—joining as the founding manufacturing member.
The Alliance provides a scalable approach to decarbonizing fertilizer manufacturing by funding emissions reduction initiatives within the agriculture value chain. With funding to be secured through the Alliance, CF Industries has committed to complete a new nitric acid plant emissions abatement project at its Verdigris, Oklahoma, manufacturing facility, which is expected to reduce emissions from the facility by 600,000 metric tons CO₂e/year beginning in 2025. Nitric acid is a raw material of urea ammonium nitrate solution (UAN), the most commonly used fertilizer in the United States.
Additional Collaborations to Reduce Agriculture Supply Chain Emissions
CF Industries and POET to Demonstrate the Use of Low-Carbon Fertilizer in Corn Production to Reduce Carbon Intensity of Ethanol
CF Industries and POET LLC, the world’s largest producer of biofuel and a global leader in sustainable bioproducts, announced in July 2024 a collaboration to pilot the use of low-carbon ammonia fertilizer to reduce the carbon intensity of corn production and ethanol. Producing ethanol with corn grown using low-carbon ammonia can reduce the carbon intensity of ethanol up to 10 percent.
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CF Industries Working with CHS Inc. on Production and Distribution of Low-Carbon Nitrogen Fertilizer
CF Industries, one of the world’s largest producers of nitrogen fertilizer, is working with CHS Inc., the nation’s leading agribusiness cooperative, to accelerate quantifiable and certifiable agriculture and food system greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions through the production and distribution of low-carbon nitrogen fertilizer.
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