The heavy lifting and transport company Mammoet has finished upgrading a major fertiliser plant of Ma’aden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC) two months ahead of schedule.
The project work, offered by the project consultant Fluor, involved lifting of the old towers of the plant in a piece and replacing them with cleaner and more efficient equivalents.
The challenge for MWSPC was to lift out the old towers in one piece and then manoeuver the modular replacements into position.
MWSPC is a $8 billion joint venture investment between Saudi mning giant Ma’aden (with a 60% stake), Sabic (15%), and The Mosaic Company (25%).
It operates some of the largest and busiest fertilizer plants anywhere in the world such as Umm Wu’al Sulphuric Acid and Power Plant, located in a new industrial city in the extreme northeast of the kingdom.
