Beauchamp: 8 Rivers has secured 18% offtake for Project Cormorant
Damien Beauchamp · The sunk cost dilemma · Sep 10, 2025 · at 12:31
Eight Rivers CEO Damien Beauchamp discusses the commercial status and capacity of Project Cormorant, a clean ammonia facility.
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“You know, the project is structured to produce 900,000 tons of ammonia, and we've, we found offtake for about 18% of that 900,000, and we're working on, on getting the rest of that ammonia offtake secured.”
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