KAZAZOT, the leading company in the fertilizer industry in Kazakhstan, has selected Técnicas Reunidas as the contractor to develop a new Ammonium, Urea, Nitric Acid and Ammonium Nitrate Complex.
With a total investment of approximately $1 billion, the plant will be located in Aktau, Mangistau Oblast, in the southwestern side of the country.
Técnicas Reunidas will first carry out the engineering design under a FEED OBE contract (front-end engineering design/open book estimation) that will require about 200.000 engineering hours. This work will be executed at its Madrid headquarters and it is expected to be completed in the current year.
Once accomplished all work and obtained the related financial resources, Técnicas Reunidas will execute the full engineering, procurement and construction of the plant through an EPC contract.
It is worth recalling in this regard that the company has a long experience in the conversion of FEED OBE contracts into EPC contracts. In this case, the initial FEED OBE contract, for 16.75 million euros, will be followed on completion by an EPC contract for the total construction of the facility, which, as mentioned above, will amount to about 1 billion dollars.
The new world scale complex will have the capacity to produce 660,000 tons per year of ammonia, 577,500 tons per year of urea, 395,000 tons per year of nitric acid and 500,000 tons per year of ammonium nitrate.
Once completed, the installation will become the largest combined fertilizer production complex in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Técnicas Reunidas will improve the plant’s environmental compatibility by increasing its level of integration with existing facilities, optimizing the use of natural resources and improving efficiency compared to other similar pants, thus making the new complex a reference in its sector at an international scale.
It should be noted that this award is fully aligned with Técnicas Reunidas’ strategy and commitment to Kazakhstan, as it has been identified as a strategic market.