South Korea's Samsung Engineering has won a $300m contract to build an air separation plant in Saudi Arabia, adding to the firm's order book after it secured Jubail export refinery work in June.
Samsung Engineering president and chief executive officer (CEO) Yeon-Joo Jung said on 25 July that the company had won the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) deal from the local National Industrial Gases Company, a subsidiary of petrochemicals giant Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic).
The contractor will build the plant, which will produce 3,550 tonnes a year (t/y) of gaseous oxygen and 3,600 t/y of nitrogen, at Jubail, on Saudi Arabia's east coast.
The plant is due to open in 2011.
In June, state energy giant Saudi Aramco and France's Total awarded two contracts for an export refinery at Jubail, to Samsung.
The two packages are worth about $1.5bn in total. Samsung is sharing the second job, a new $850m coker unit, with Japan's Chiyoda Corporation (MEED 11:6:09).
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