JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Co. (SAFCO) began commercial operations at its SAFCO 5 urea plant, the firm said in a bourse filing.

The plant was originally scheduled to start up in the third quarter of 2014.

It has an annual production capacity of 1.1 million tons of urea.

SAFCO, a unit of Saudi Basic Industries Corp. said the financial impact of the scheme will be reflected in the second half of this year, according to the filing.