OHL Industrial wins contracts in Asia and Latin America worth 300 million euros

OHL Industrial, in the framework of its international expansion strategy, has obtained five projects in Jordan, Uruguay, Chile, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia with a total award budget of 300 million euros. Except for Chile, where the division has been operating since 2012, the new contracts signify the entry of OHL Industrial into the markets of these countries.

In the framework of its strategic plan, and also in the face of the slowdown in its investment in Spain, this division of the OHL Group is making a significant effort in order to expand its activity in the foreign countries where it is already working and, also, to enter into new markets with an outlook for strong growth in investment in industrial projects, with particular interest in Latin America and the Persian Gulf. This policy has led OHL Industrial to open offices in Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Arab Emirates and Oman.

Oil & Gas Project in Jordan

Particularly outstanding among the projects obtained is the contract awarded by Jordan’s Ministry of Energy to OHL Industrial, in a consortium with the Jordanian company, MID Contracting, worth 135 million euros (174 million dollars), for the construction of a strategic oil terminal.

The terminal will be built near Amman and will have a storage capacity of 340,000 tons of petroleum products and 10,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas.

With a 60% interest, OHL Industrial leads this contract, its first project in the Oil & Gas sector in Jordan. Its consortium with MID Contracting was chosen by Jordan’s Ministry of Energy from among the thirteen finalists for the project, which had been prequalified from among the 51 companies initially submitting proposals.

Photovoltaic Power Plant in Uruguay

Likewise, OHL Industrial has been awarded a contract in Uruguay for a 65 MW photovoltaic power plant to be built in Salto, in the north of the country.

This is the first contract obtained by this division of the OHL Group in Uruguay.  It consists of an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) project and, in addition, will include the operation and maintenance of the plant during a period of 24 months, extendable to 36 months.

The plant will have 216,000 photovoltaic panels, occupying a surface area of 140 hectares. It will supply the electric power needs of around 35,000 households in the area and avoid CO2 emissions of close to 74,142 tons/year.

Mining Plant in Chile

Minera Escondida Ltda, owned by BHP Billiton Inc., has awarded to OHL Industrial the operation and maintenance of its rhyolite grinding plant in the Atacama Desert, located 196 km southeast of the city of Antofagasta, in the Second Region of Chile. The project includes the extraction and transportation of the mineral from existing deposits up to the plant, with the aim of achieving an approximate production of 2,244,400 m³ (3.9 million tons) of material for the construction of bioleaching ponds.

Clinker Line in Vietnam

Following the contracts won by OHL Construcción in Vietnam, OHL Industrial has also obtained its first project in this Asian country: an 18-km-long overland transportation line, in order to carry clinker from the production plant of the cement company, Cong Thanh Cement, located 200 km southeast of Hanoi, to the port of this capital city for export. The line will have seven conveyer belts, and its entire length will be elevated, due to the flood propensity of the area.

The conveyors will have a belt width of 1,000 mm, with a design capacity of 1,500 t/h and a speed of 5 m/s.

OHL Industrial’s proposal includes the engineering and FOB (Free On Board) supply at a Spanish port of the main parts of the conveyer belts (imported parts) and the engineering of the parts manufactured locally, including the support structures.

Equipment for a Plant in Saudi Arabia

Finally, the project awarded in Saudi Arabia includes the design, manufacture, inspection and transportation to the Port of Bilbao, under FCA (Free Carrier) terms, of 16 sets of equipment for the granular diammonium phosphate (DAP) production plant that the Saudi mining company Ma’aden is building in Ras Al Khair.

The supply is comprised by four drying cylinders, four granulators, four coolers and four coaters, forming four production lines distributed between two process buildings and sized to produce 2.9 million tons of DAP annually.