Air products and Samsung secure contract for 4 ASU from SABIC

Thursday, 24 Sep 2009

Air Products, working with Samsung Engineering, announced that it has secured a contract for an air separation unit to supply National Industrial Gases Company a subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation.

The ASU will produce 3,550 tonnes per day of oxygen, 3,600 tonnes per day of nitrogen and 150 tonnes per day of argon. It will be located at NIGC's facility in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia and is to be on stream in 2011.

Mr David J Taylor VP of Energy Businesses at Air Products said that "We are very proud to have won this contract with Samsung Engineering. It demonstrates a novel approach, by combining Air Products ability to design large-scale ASUs with the engineering and construction expertise of Samsung Engineering. This project is another milestone demonstrating our industrial gas facility capabilities as the ASU will be the largest ever cold box system designed, fabricated and shipped by Air Products."

Mr Taylor noted the arrangement both strengthens Air Products existing relationship with NIGC and SABIC and regionally as the Al Jubail Phase 8 ASU is the most recent in a series of Middle East projects for Air Products.

Air Products built the first ever ASU in the Middle East in the 1950s and has 50 years of experience satisfying industrial gas customers in the region. The company's Middle East operation is headquartered in Doha of Qatar.