$408m cement plant to be set up in HFZ
Project Name: Al Ruya Cement plant
Project Location: Hamriyah Free Zone (HFZ), Sharjah
Client: Al Ruya Company
Contact Details: Dr Rashid Al Leem, Director
Hamriyah Free Zone (HFZ)
PO Box 1377 Sharjah, UAE
Phone: +9716 526 3333
Fax: +9716 526 3555
Email: al_leem@hamriyahfreezone.ae
Project Details:
An investment agreement was recently signed between the Saudi-based Al Ruya Company and Hamriyah Free Zone (HFZ) for setting up a cement plant with an initial investment of Dh1.5 billion ($408.3 million) and a capacity of 3.6 million tonnes per year (tpy) at HFZ to capitalise on the huge demand for cement in the buoyant construction sector of the UAE.
The project will be completed within two years and is considered one of the largest projects of its kind in the Middle East. Once the cement plant is completed, Al Ruya will venture into steel industry with an investment of $400 to $700 million in the free zone as the demand for steel is also huge in this region.
This is the first cement plant that Al Ruya is establishing in the UAE. The demand may increase by 15 per cent in the next three to five years. The UAE currently faces a shortage of cement production by about 5 million tpy with a current production capacity of 11 million tpy, which is set to increase by 3 to 4 million tpy by 2007.
Al Ruya has leased one million sq m of land in the free zone for establishing its new plant. The lease has been signed for a period of 25 years and is renewable thereafter. It had selected HFZ due to its strategic location on the Arabian Gulf and the excellent infrastructure facilities and services that the free zone provides to its investors.
The stones for the production of cement will come from Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah and the cement produced will be for export and local use. The production will also be increased to 5.5 tpy once the demand increases.
HFZ is one of the fastest growing zones in the Middle East and has more than 1,100 companies representing 87 countries in the world.
According to a report, the estimated consumption of cement in the Gulf is more than 40 million tonnes and this would increase tremendously in the next three years.
$240m Dubal order for Alstom
Project Name: Dubal Combined-cycle power plant
Project Location: Jebel Ali, Dubai
Client: Dubai Aluminium (Dubal)
Contractor: Alstom
Contact Details: Sylvain Hijazi,
Country President, Alstom
PO Box 25448 Sharjah, UAE
Phone: +9716 556 3971
Fax: +9716 556 2154
Project Details:
Dubai Aluminium Company (Dubal) has awarded a Dh734.6 million ($240.3 million) turnkey construction contract for a 430 MW gas-fired combined-cycle power plant and the supply of fume treatment systems for an aluminium smelter to Alstom of the US.
Alstom will carry out the engineering, supply, building and commissioning of the new power plant, including the supply of two Alstom’s GT13E2 gas turbines, three generators, steam turbine, heat recovery steam generator, digital control system and balance of the plant. It will also supply two fume treatment centres for the extension of the two of its nine aluminium smelting potlines at its plant, located in the south of Dubai, which will significantly decrease the fluoride and particulate emissions produced in the aluminium production process.
The power plant will begin delivering power as early as January 2007 with project completion scheduled for December 2007.
Dubal is expanding the capacity of its Jebel Ali smelter, considered one of the largest single site aluminum smelters in the world, to meet increased demands for its customers in the Far East, the Middle East, Europe, the Asean region, the Mediterranean and the US.
In 2004, Alstom won a contract from Dubal to upgrade and extend an existing gas-fired power station to cater for an increase in aluminium production. It has, over the past three years, won several contracts to build turnkey power plants for the three aluminium producers in the Middle East, namely Aluminium Bahrain, Sohar Aluminium Company and Dubal. It is represented in 70 countries worldwide. The group’s power business comprises the power turbo-systems/power environment sector and the power service sector. The group is also a leading player in the marine sector and in power conversion.
Shaw gets Kuwait EBSM project
Project Name: Ethyl benzene styrene monomer (EBSM) plant
Project Location: Equate complex, Kuwait
Client: Kuwait Styrene Company
Contractor: Shaw Stone & Webster
Contact Details: Ebrahim “Abe” Fatemizadeh,
President, Energy & Chemicals Division
Shaw Group Inc 4171 Essen Lane Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809 USA
Phone: +225 932 2500
Fax: +225 932 2661
Project Details:
The Kuwait Styrene Company (TKSC) has awarded Shaw Stone & Webster, a unit of the the Shaw Group of the US, a contract to build an ethyl benzene styrene monomer (EBSM) plant in Kuwait.
The plant, which will produce up to 500,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of ethyl benzene and 450,000 tpy of styrene monomer, will be built within the existing Equate complex. The amount of the contract was not disclosed.
The new ethyl benzene plant will utilise proprietary EBMax technology provided by Badger Licensing, a joint venture of Shaw Stone & Webster and ExxonMobil Chemical Company. Dow Europe Holding will provide the styrene monomer technology.
Work will commence immediately with start-up of the plant scheduled for 2008.
TKSC is a joint venture between Dow Europe Holding BV, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, and Kuwait Aromatics Company KSC (KARO).
The Shaw Group is a leading global provider of technology, engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, fabrication, manufacturing, consulting, remediation, and facilities management services for government and private sector clients in the energy, chemical, environmental, infrastructure and emergency response markets. Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with over $3 billion in annual revenues, Shaw employs approximately 20,000 people at its offices and operations in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.
