ROLTA International has been awarded a contract by Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) to implement a comprehensive engineering system at its complex, which is believed to be the world’s largest petrochemical facility ever built in a single phase.

Rolta said it was selected for this challenging project based upon its unique combination of world-class capabilities in engineering and IT. The project will be managed by a global Rolta team working out of the US, India and Saudi Arabia, and will be completed by late 2014.

Sadara represents a unique alliance between the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), one of the leading energy suppliers to the world, and The Dow Chemical Company, a leading science and technology company of the world.

With a total investment of about $20 billion, Sadara is now building and will own and operate an integrated chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City II in Saudi Arabia. Consisting of 26 manufacturing units, the Sadara complex will possess flexible cracking capabilities and will produce more than three million tonnes of high value-added chemical and performance plastics products.

“We have partnered with Rolta on this challenging project because they have the breadth of sophisticated engineering IT expertise and have proven global delivery capabilities that are required for such an important project,” said Taher Nemer, project manager manufacturing and engineering systems for the Sadara project.