The Tier One company completed the world-scale complex without a lost time injury in 25 million worker hours.
“For the Air Products team members involved to complete this project with the extensive worker hours required, facing varied challenges, and to do so without a lost time injury is a truly exceptional milestone,” said Dr Samir Serhan, Executive Vice-President at Air Products.
“It speaks of the dedication to safety, and extreme focus on the task to be completed. The confirmation of our success was the agreement of the customer that we had reached the mechanical completion stage of the construction project.”
“Going forward, when a prospective customer is interested in Air Products’ expertise, we can point to a map and say, let me tell you what we accomplished at Jazan,” Dr Serhan said.
In April 2015, Air Products was awarded a 20-year contract by Saudi Aramco, under a joint venture of Air Products and ACWA Holding to build, own and operate the world’s largest industrial gas complex to supply 75,000 metric tonnes per day to Saudi Aramco’s refinery and integrated gasification combined cycle being built in Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
The Jazan Project was executed by Air Products’ major execution centre in the UK, US, China and India with active engagement of employees in Saudi Arabia. The industrial gas complex is expected to be brought onstream in phrases this year (2019).
“Overall it took approximately three years to engineer, procure and construct the world’s largest industrial gas facility. The project is significantly larger than anything executed by Air Products to date, and the global company engineering effort speaks to our engineering capabilities and expertise,” said Dr Serhan.
“On top of that, there was the massive recruitment effort to bring the construction workforce and others to the location, train them, and have them understand our focus on safety. The construction success and safety results all speak to the execution by our team.” Dr Serhan concluded.