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UNCLAS NEW DELHI 008169 
 
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USDOC FOR 532/OEA/M. NICKSON-DORSEY/JAY HATFIELD 
USDOC FOR 3131/USFCS/OIO/ANESA/KREISSL 
USDOC FOR 4530/MAC/ANESA/OSA 
ICE HQ FOR STRATEGIC INVESTIGATIONS 
STATE FOR EB/ESP 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: KRISHAK BHARTI COOPERATIVE 
LTD, HAZIRA, SURAT, GUJARAT, LICENSE NO. D364825 
 
REF: USDOC 05893 
 
¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is 
prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 
 
¶2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem 
Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at Krishak Bharati 
Co-operative Limited (Kribhco), Hazira, Surat, Gujarat on December 
1, 2006. 
 
¶3. BIS requested a PLC at Kribhco, a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) 
under the administrative control of the GOI Department of 
Fertilizer, located at: P.O. Kribhco Nagar, Hazira, Surat, Gujarat 
394515, Website: www.kribhco.net. Kribhco was listed as the Ultimate 
Consignee; Emerson Process Management India (Emerson), Daman, UT as 
the Foreign Purchaser and Intermediate Consignee for one oxygen 
analyzer controlled under EAR99.  The license applicant was 
Rosemount Analytical (Rosemount), Solon, OH. 
¶4. The ECO met for approximately 2 hours with P.W. Shah (Shah), 
Senior General Manager, M.R. Patel (Patel), General Manager 
(Commercial), C. Viswanathan, General Manager (F&A), I.L. Mistry, 
General Manager (Pers. & Admn.) and P.K. Soneji (Soneji), Joint 
General Manager (Materials), Kribhco.  Under Secretary (AMS) 
Prashant Agrawal (Agrawal), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), GOI, 
facilitated the meeting.  Agrawal was also present in the meeting. 
 
¶5. Kribhco officials were not aware of the BIS regulations.  This 
was the first USG or BIS official visit to Kribhco.  They provided a 
copy of the Kribhco corporate brochure, Kribhco Inquiry to Emerson 
to purchase spares for oxygen analyzer, Emerson Quotation, Kribhco 
Purchase Order to Emerson, Form BIS-711, Kribhco End User 
Undertaking and Certificate.  Per reftel, Rosemount applied for BIS 
export license to export a complete unit of oxygen analyzer. 
Kribhco officials, referring to their Purchase Order, clarified that 
they would only purchase two components, the microprocessor and 
sensor as spares for three already functional oxygen analyzers 
installed at Kribhco Plant II. 
 
¶6. Per reftel, Kribhco makes heavy water at the ammonia extraction 
portion of this fertilizer plant. The ECO inquired on several 
occasions as to what other products Kribhco manufactures other than 
urea fertilizer.  The officials stated that Kribhco is 100 percent 
into fertilizer manufacturing with excess ammonia as a by-product. 
An on-line search did not find heavy water as a Kribhco product. 
 
¶7. Soneji stated that the two components on order, sensors and 
microprocessor would be kept as spares for the three oxygen 
analyzers functioning at the Kribhco Ammonia Plant-II.  The ammonia 
gas is mixed in the reformer furnace at a temperature of 
approximately 1,000 degrees Celsius with carbon dioxide along with 
fresh air for making the final product of urea.  The oxygen 
analyzers are used to measure the oxygen level in the flue gas.  The 
flue gas is the burnt gas coming out of the reformer furnace.  The 
waste gas contains oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide.  He stated 
that the oxygen level in the flue gas should be in the range of 2-3 
percent.  If the oxygen level in the flue gas is above or below 2-3 
percent then monthly adjustments are made to bring it to the 
required level to produce safe, efficient, combustion.  The ECO was 
given a tour of the Ammonia Plant-II where all three oxygen 
analyzers were installed and functioning.  Soneji explained the 
process as to how the analyzers are used. 
 
¶8. Established in 1986, Kribhco is one of the leading fertilizer 
manufacturing PSUs under the administrative control of the GOI's 
Department of Fertilizer.  Kribhco manufactures urea and ammonia at 
its plant in Hazira, Surat, Gujarat and bio-fertilizers at its two 
other factories located in Varanasi and Lanja, Uttar Pradesh.  The 
Kribhco Hazira complex has 2 streams of ammonia plant and 4 streams 
of urea plant. In addition, Kribhco has 10 seed processing plants 
across the country and markets and sells its products through 65 
Krishak Bharati Seva Kendra which are Indian farmers' support 
centers.   Kribhco employs approximately 2,000 personnel across the 
country. 
 
¶9. Recommendation: Post recommends Krishak Bharti Cooperative Ltd. 
as a reliable recipient of the controlled U.S. origin commodities. 
All indications are that the listed commodities will be used in 
accordance with U.S. export control regulations (MKRUFE) Mulford