Construction Week reported that the industrial divison of Qatar’s Buzwair has signed a contract to build a cryogenic gas separating plant at Sur, Oman with the UAE based Sun Metals a commercial scale scrap metal recycling specialist.
According to the report, the plant will produce 60 tonnes of gaseous oxygen a day and 70 tonnes of liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon a day, largely for the steel production operations of an integrated steel mill planned nearby.
Mr PT Sivarajan, director of operations at Sun Metals which is investing in 1.2 million tonnes per annum of steel complex at Sur, said, “We have signed a contract with Buzwair for the establishment of an industrial gases plant on a build own operate basis.”
Mr Sivarjan said, “Buzwair’s facility will be constructed on the site of the steel mill complex to provide us with a continuous supply of industrial gases. Work on the project is expected to commence just after the holy month of Ramadan, with phase one of the project scheduled to come into operation before the end of 2013.”
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