Increasing Yield & Reducing Energy Losses in an Ammonia Production Plant
- Fertilizer Production
- Mid-sized manufacturer operating a 20-year-old ammonia plant
- North Africa
Driving a Complex Fertilizer Plant Expansion from Concept to Commissioning
- Fertilizer Production
- Global fertilizer producer
- East Africa
Obstacles Our Experts Have Transformed into Opportunities
The client, a global fertilizer producer, was struggling to maintain control across the full project lifecycle of a greenfield ammonia-urea plant expansion in East Africa:
Scope & Deliverables Misalignment
Transition from feasibility to FEED and EPC was delayed due to inconsistent deliverables and undefined scope
Siloed Execution & Poor Handoffs
Multiple engineering and construction firms operated in silos, with poor coordination across handoffs
Lack of Integration Ownership
No single owner of project integration, causing gaps in document control and milestone alignment
Risk Blind Spots & Scope Creep
Contractor interfaces lacked risk transparency, leading to overlapping responsibilities and scope creep
Limited In-House Expertise
The client had limited internal technical resources to manage such a complex, multi-phase capital project
Fragmented Execution Risks
What began as a promising investment was veering toward fragmented execution, missed deadlines, and cost overruns
Teec’s Expert-Led Solution
Our Experts deployed our Project Lifecycle Management service as a unifying structure across all project phases:
What Our Experts Did
Established a centralized project execution framework, covering feasibility, FEED, EPC, commissioning, and handover.
Appointed TEEC lifecycle managers to act as the single point of integration across engineering, procurement, and construction
Developed milestone-based tracking tools aligned with risk registers and change management protocols
Implemented a digital Project Control Hub for monitoring progress, deliverables, and technical decisions
Facilitated weekly coordination meetings and decision gates to maintain alignment across contractors and client teams
TEEC transformed a scattered project into a coordinated, forward-moving execution engine.
Execution Approach by Teec’s Experts
- Established a centralized Project Execution Framework (PEF) integrating FEED, EPC, and commissioning phases
- Aligned stakeholders (client, EPCs, licensors, vendors) around shared milestones, deliverables, and risk management protocols
- Developed a Project Charter with clear scope boundaries, technical interfaces, and escalation paths
- Created a gated handover model between feasibility, FEED, EPC, and operations
- Documented key decisions, scope deviations, and lessons learned using TEEC’s lifecycle log
- Ensured continuity by linking early design assumptions to construction and operational expectations
- Designed a digital control hub integrating schedule, budget, and technical progress KPIs
- Embedded a technical risk register reviewed during bi-weekly multi-party risk huddles
- Introduced change control workflows tied to risk, cost, and delay impact scoring
- Embedded TEEC lifecycle managers in the client’s team for real-time decision support
- Developed a Phase Completion Checklist and Lifecycle Dashboard
- Conducted debriefing and lessons-learned sessions post-handover to operations
Results & Impact
Improved engineering deliverable traceability and eliminated 80% of repeat technical queries
Created a scalable lifecycle governance model now adopted across the client’s project portfolio
Reduced schedule slippage from 9 months to just 3 months through structured interface management
Maintained project budget with <2% deviation from Total Installed Cost (TIC)
Integrated Value Through Teec’s Data-Driven Solutions
Data-Driven Solutions
BPM Solutions
With this integration, project clarity became a system—not a hope.
