A process for producing UREA, said process comprising the steps of: purification of a hydrocarbon feed gas to remove sulphur and/or chloride components if present, reforming the hydrocarbon feed gas in a reforming step where the steam/carbon ratio is less than 2.6 thereby obtaining a synthesis gas comprising CH[4], CO, CO[2], H[2] and H[2]O, optionally adding H[2]O to the synthesis gas from the reforming step to maintain an overall steam/carbon less than 2.6, shifting the synthesis gas in a shift section comprising one or more shift steps preferably in series, optionally washing the synthesisgas leaving the shift section with water, removing CO[2] from the synthesis gas from the shift section in a CO[2] removal step to obtain a synthesis gas with less than 500 ppm CO[2], preferably less than 20 ppm CO[2] and a CO[2] product gas, removing residual H[2]O and/or CO[2] from the synthesis gas preferably in an absorbent step, removing CH[4],CO, Ar and/or He preferably in a nitrogen wash unit and adding stoichiometric nitrogen to produce NH[3]to the synthesis gas, synthesizing NH[3] to obtain a NH[3] product, adding at least part of the product CO[2] and at least part of the NH[3] product to a UREA synthesis step to make a UREA product, Wherein the amount of excess CO[2] and/or NH[3] is controlled by adjusting the steam/carbon in the reforming step and/or the H[2]O addition upstreamthe shift step and/or adjusting the inlet temperature to at least one of the one or more shift steps.