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Uhde to build Safco plant
Jubail: Saudi Arabian Fertiliser Company (Safco), an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), has signed a deal with German engineering firm Uhde to build a fertiliser plant in the industrial city of Jubail.
Safco's chairman Mohammed Hamad Al Mady said the plant will have annual production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of ammonia and 1.1 million tonnes of urea. Mady said a letter of intent was signed last month with Udhe but declined to give the value of the deal.
The plant is expected to be completed in 2005 and come on stream in early 2006.
EPC deal for SIPC plant
Jubail: Norway's Kvaerner has won the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract on a new plant at the Saudi International Petrochemical Company (SIPC) complex in Jubail.
The EPC contract calls for the construction of butanediol (BD) and maleic anhydride plants which are set to go onstream by 2005.
Last year, SIPC awarded the EPC contract for a methanol plant, also located at the complex, to Japan's Chiyoda Corp and the local Chiyoda Petrostar. The project manager of the complex is the US' Fluor Daniel.
