Cimac to set up technology centr
Project Name: Technology centre
Project Location: Dubai Techno Park
Client: Cimac
Contact Details: Ajay Menon, General Manager
Cimac PO Box 61314 Jebel Ali Free Zone Dubai UAE
Phone: +971 4 8837013
Fax: +971 4 8837014
Email: ajay.menon@cimacdubai.com
Project Details
Cimac, an automation and control firm, has signed up with Dubai Techno Park to build its Dh25 million ($6.8 million) technology centre and Centre of Excellence at the park.
The 10,000 sq m facility will have a completely automated panel manufacturing and assembly unit, with the most modern equipment to build control panels and low voltage motor control centres.
The construction of Cimac’s new facility at Techno Park will be spread out in four phases, with the first phase expected to complete by the second half of 2006.
A unique Research and Development (R&D) facility, called the ‘World Centre of Excellence and Innovation’ and which will consist of a variety of different robots fitted with Cimac’s latest laser technology, will also be a part of Cimac’s new project at Techno Park.
An advanced staging and testing facility will also be built at the Park, which will have all facilities and systems to completely test a microprocessor-based control system for its full functionality. This facility will include hardware and software simulations, which will allow clients to fully test their systems before it leaves the production floor.
Cimac’s expertise in providing turnkey automation solutions will greatly benefit the process and manufacturing industries in the region. Dubai Techno Park, with its high quality infrastructure facilities and support services, will serve as the ideal platform for hi-tech companies looking to establish operations in Dubai.
Cimac was established in the Middle East in 1996 with the objective of providing lump sum turnkey capability for control and instrumentation covering all types of control and automation systems.
From a branch office of Cimac UK, Cimac FZCO has evolved into an independent company registered and incorporated in Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZ), Dubai. $700m Q-Chem deal awarded
Daelim, Tecnimont in Sahara plant deal
Project Name: PP and PDH plant
Project Location: Jubail
Client: Sahara Petrochemical Company
Contractor: Tecnimont, Daelim
Contact Details: S I Kim, General Manager
Daelim Industrial Company
PO Box 2346 Dammam 31451 Saudi Arabia
Phone: +9663 857 8221
Fax: +9663 857 6446
Email: sikim@canaryvillage.com
Project Details
Sahara Petrochemical Company has given a letter of intent (LoI) to a joint venture of Tecnimont of Italy and Daelim Industrial Company of South Korea for the $610 million contract to build polypropylene (PP) and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plants at its project in Jubail.
The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) package will be on a lump-sum turnkey (LSTK) basis.
Construction will take two years to complete.
Foster Wheeler is the project management consultant for the project.
Sahara Petrochemical Company was set up by Zamil Group and the company has attracted funds from 138 private and institutional investors, who contributed SR1.2 billion, and another SR300 million was raised through an IPO (initial public offering), which was 25 times oversubscribed.
Fluor signs $999m Gasco contract
Project Name: Habshan gas complex expansion - first stage
Project Location: Habshan, Abu Dhabi
Client: Gasco
Contact Details: Abdul Aziz Al Ameeri, Project Division Manager
Gasco, PO Box 665 Abu Dhabi UAE
Phone: +9712 603 1100/7558
Fax: +9712 603 7122
Contractor: Fluor Daniel
Project Details
Abu Dhabi Gas Industries (Gasco), a unit of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), has awarded US engineering firm Fluor Daniel a Dh3.6 billion ($999 million) engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract to build the first stage of the Habshan gas complex expansion.
The project includes installing two new sulphur recovery units with total output capacity of 1,600 tonnes per day, an acid gas enrichment unit as well as additional process and utilities units and upgrade of existing control systems.
The complex has a current gas processing capacity of around 3.3 billion cu ft per day (cfpd). The package-one project targets to increase the capacity of the pressure boosting units to feed the additional associated gas from Bab oilfield for processing in the current gas treatment trains of the complex.
The project is scheduled for completion within 32 months, including successful test runs.
The UAE, which pumps about 2.4 million barrels per day of crude, is home to the world’s fifth biggest gas reserves at 213.9 trillion cu ft.
In February, Bechtel won a $1.5 billion contract for phase three of the Habshan onshore gas deal to lift pumping rates by 1.3 billion cfpd and help boost pressure in oilfields via re-injection. In July, Bechtel got a $1.2 billion deal for the construction of the second phase of the Asab gas project.
The contracts are among five packages in Adnoc’s onshore gas development scheme.
