Orascom E&C USA Inc. (OEC USA), is OC's wholly owned engineering and construction subsidiary based in the United States. With its Head Office located in Mclean, VA, O E&C is specialized in the construction of large industrial facilities including two new projects: a Debottlenecking facility in Beaumont, TX that will increase annual methanol production capacity by approximately 182,500 metric tons and annual ammonia production capacity by approximately 40,000 metric tons; and a $1.5 billion natural gas-based fertilizer production facility in Wever, IA that will produce 1.7 to 2.2 million tons per year of ammonia, urea, urea ammonium nitrate, and diesel exhaust fluid. This fertilizer plant is the first world scale facility of its kind built in the US in 25 years.