JUBAIL, Saudi Arabia, May 30th, 2018 – Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Veolia Middle East SAS (“Veolia”), a Paris-based group , to construct a sustainable central utilities facility in PlasChem Park, the unique industrial park adjacent to the Sadara Chemical Complex. PlasChem Park is a collaborative effort between Sadara and the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY) in Jubail Industrial City II.
The MOU provides a long-term waste management solution for Sadara, and creates an opportunity for Veolia to build a utility plant including waste management and waste energy facilities at PlasChem Park, enabling Veolia to manage a substantial portion of Sadara’s waste streams.
The central utilities “island” will incinerate industrial wastes and recover the heat from this process to produce a usable steam by-product. This will act as an incentive to attract PlasChem Park investors, providing their proposed manufacturing plants with third-party steam at an attractive price.
Additionally, the Veolia facility will produce cooled water and compressed air, which will also be made available to PlasChem Park tenants for industrial use.
The utilities project will be developed by Veolia and potential partners. The investment will be made by Veolia and partners, and Sadara will act only as facilitator to the project’s success and has agreed to transfer waste products to the plant.
Veolia, a global group, develops sustainable responsible services and expertise to companies in many types of industries. It currently operates 29 similar utility facilities worldwide.
In Jubail, Veolia group has a track record in operation and maintenance of industrial waste water projects and in delivering EPC works – specifically, the Marafiq Desalination Plant (800,000 m3/day) and the Sadara SWRO plant (178,000 m3/day).
