Ma’aden, the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, has announced that it has awarded a US$133 million program management services contract to WorleyParsons.
The contract is for the provision of engineering and project management services for its Phosphate project and covers the development of the Phosphate mine at Al-Jalamid in the north and the chemicals complex, town site and related infrastructure at Raz Az Zawr on the east coast of the Kingdom. The infrastructure to be developed will also support Ma’aden’s aluminium project, and further industrial development in the new Minerals Industrial City at Raz Az Zawr.
During construction, the direct work force on this project will total some eight thousand employees. When completed, the Phosphate project will be the largest integrated fertilizer plant in the world, producing some 3 million tons per year of diamonnium phosphate (DAP), which will represent 10% of global DAP production.
The Phosphate project, together with the related infrastructure represents an investment of approximately US$2.5 Billion. It will, when completed, provide over 1,700 full-time jobs for Saudi nationals along with many additional job opportunities in related support areas and will contribute in a substantive way to diversification of the Saudi economy.
