Fluor is providing EPCM services for the U&O scope of the project, comprising approximately 30 percent of the total project. The engineering on the project was executed by multiple Fluor offices in the U.S., UK, The Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. Procurement was done on a global basis.
Fluor is responsible for providing utilities such as power, fuel gas, cooling water, instrument air, boilers, and flares along with port facilities and third parties such as Aramco. Fluor is also responsible for the site infrastructure and buildings in the administration area.
Fluor also manages the activities of 50 contractors with over 11,000 multicultural and multi national workers, from countries such as China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Fluor’s staff is also multinational with representatives from twelve countries.
As with all projects, Fluor developed and implemented its health, safety, and environment (HSE) culture, goals, and expectations for the Saudi Kayan project. As a result of everyone’s commitment to safe work performance, in May 2009 the Fluor site team and the U&O contractors achieved 23 million safe work hours without a lost time incident. This Saudi Kayan Project in total has achieved 51 million safe work hours.
Once completed, the Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Complex will include a 2 million-tons-per-year ethane/butane cracker, including benzene extraction facilities; a 700,000-tons-per-year polyethylene plant; a polypropylene plant with capacity of at least 350,000 tons per year; and a 530,000-tons-per-year ethylene glycol unit. An integrated phenolics plant, including cumene, phenol and Bisphenol-A units, will produce feedstock for a 260,000-tons-per-year, high-value polycarbonates plant. Additional amine derivative facilities will be installed for the production of methylamines, ethanolamines, ethoxylates and choline chloride.
Fluor is responsible for Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCM) of the Utilities and Offsites (U&O) scope, which comprises approximately 30 percent of the total project. The U&O contract has 50 contractors with a multicultural, multinational workforce of over 11,000 personnel.