Qatar QAFCO 5·6 Project

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The world’s largest fortress on the deserts…stood out with its technical prowessAppearing as a secret fortress on the vast deserts, Qatar QAFCO 5·6 project is located in Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC) 48km south of Doha, the capital of Qatar. This was a representative plant construction site completed by Hyundai E&C in September 2012.The world’s single largest regional urea fertilizer plant projectHyundai E&C won the USD 2.9-billion Qafco-5 contract ordered by QAFCO(Qatar Fertilizer Co,.) in December 2007 by forming a consortium with Saipem S.p.A. In October 2009, and additionally won the USD 600-million Qafco-6 contract. Based on the reliability of the ordering organization, the contract was amounted to a total of USD 3.5 billion (USD 1.2 billion for Hyundai E&C).    The project known for the world’s single largest production capacity was installing various utilities, control building, generator, substation, liquified ammonia storage tank, urea product storage facility and transportation structure, and loading docks to two 2,300-ton ammonia plants and 3850-ton urea plants.Headed for successful completion by overcoming hardshipsIt was much more difficult for us to design and construct a fertilizer plant compared to other chemical plants. Many numbers of chemical devices were used to create fertilizer, and chemical reaction was required by using gas as raw material. Moreover, in the early stage of site opening, we encountered with unexpected challenges including work interruption due to picky safety and environmental regulation of the ordering organization·relevant organization and the re-construction due to frequently changed design. However, Hyundai E&C tackled all issues based on the accumulated manpower, experience, and unique challenging spirit as the first generation of the Korean company entering the overseas construction market.We were committed to ensuring safety in process management by injecting the maximum of 15,000 workforce and 470 medium·large equipment while installing about 50,000 tons of machine and 1.73 million dia-inch piping, and 40,00 tons of steel frame. We also actively utilized the knowhow accumulated in other fertilizer plant projects in Iraq, Malaysia, and Thailand.Furthermore, we introduced “Heat Stress Flag System” to improve work efficiency and manage the health of worker. We informed the current temperature, break hour, and the amount of water to intake with different flag colors and placed the Heat Stress Flag System Table translated in each foreign language in several places of the site.Such efforts made by the field employees contributed to the successful completion of Qafco-5 and Qafco-6 in June 2011 and September 2012, respectively. Currently, the Qatar QAFCO 5·6 site is positioned as the world’s single largest regional urea fertilizer plant and a representative project making the name of Hyundai E&C known globally.

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