As Yanbu is one of the key port city of KSA, so we should have a separate thread for its projects & updates. Plz post all those news regarding the projects here which doesnot have a separate thread for them.

Yanbu - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanbu)

The basic infrastructure designs for five projects to develop the Yanbu seafront in Saudi Arabia have been completed, according to KSA’s Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu.

The projects, worth more than SR1.1bn (US$294m), are set to be developed along the 11-km seafront as part of the country’s wider strategy to expand its tourism market and diversify its economy.

Among the developments will be a number of green areas, beaches, amusement parks, hotels, restaurants, car parks and pavements, as well as a long Corniche.

A Royal Commission spokesperson said: "The projects will contribute to the creation of a strong base for tourism in the region and will diversify the economic base of the city."

Construction works for the projects, which is aimed to drive more visitors, will include installation of a sewage system, water tanks, an electricity network and the lighting of roads in 13 separate areas.

Other tourism projects launched this year include a number of high profile hotel developments.

Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has inked a joint venture deal with Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) to build the world’s largest desalination plant in Yanbu, about 350 km northwest of Jeddah.

The plant will produce around 15 million gallons potable water per day which will be supplied to Madinah, Yanbu and neighbouring areas. The project is scheduled for completion in August 2012.

Under the agreement, Doosan will carry out engineering, fabrication, installation, commissioning and all other related scopes of work on an engineering, procurement and construction basis for the multi-effect desalination (MED) units. Doosan said the project order displays the market’s recognition of MED technology, which is growing due to low energy-consumption trends.

He said the agreement would enable SWCC to obtain all information related to the management, designing, engineering and construction of MED plants as well as the mechanical and electrical aspects of the project. “This will improve SWCC’s position from the status of a mere consumer of desalinated water, to a producer and transporter of modern technology,” he said.

Doosan was also recently awarded a $1.46 billion order to build another desalination plant in Ras Al-Zour in the Eastern Province. The plant will provide drinking water to the capital Riyadh and will be completed in January 2014. It will produce 1 million tons of water a day, enough for 3.5 million people.

KSA is attempting to privatise the SWCC, which runs more than 30 desal plants in the eastern and western regions of the country. According to a report published by Arab News, the Kingdom has already started privatization of its desalination plants. It awarded an SR9.1 billion ($2.43 billion) contract to a consortium of Saudi and Malaysian companies to set up Shuaiba-3, a dual purpose independent water and power plant (IWPP) designed to supply 194 million gallons of water daily as well as 900 megawatts of electricity.

I would add to that :

Royal Commission of Jubail and Yanbu is about to build their head-quarter in Yanbu within this year,
The contract is still not signed or assigned to any contractors, but material selection is going on these days.

this is a huge building and the new surrounding buildings will be coming on later stages.

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Yanbu Refinery Project (http://www.constructionweekonline.com/projects-947-yanbu-refinery-project/)

Value = $ 10 billion

Project Duration:
From = Q3 2010
To = Q1 2015

State-run oil giant Saudi Aramco says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Petrochemical Corp. for the development of the multi-billion dollar Yanbu refining complex.

Aramco said in a statement released late Wednesday it would hold a 62.5 per cent equity interest in the project while Sinopec would hold the remainder should they decide "to formally participate in a joint venture."

ConocoPhillips pulled out of the project in April, but Aramco said it would continue.

The refinery will process 400,000 barrels per day of heavy oil and is slated to be operational in 2014.

Saudi Arabia and China have been boosting oil sector ties, with the Asian powerhouse's need for energy to fuel its economy prompting it to spread its reach wide globally.

^^ the more the merrier. :laugh: :tongue3:

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ANY PHOTOS TO YANBU UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (COMPLEX)

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Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has completed the construction of a $1.1billion gas-powered power station in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

The power plant, said to be the biggest gas-powered station in the world, has an output capacity of 2,750MW, which is equivalent to 10% of the nation's total power output.

In 2007, a consortium comprising of HHI, GE and France's Sidem received a $2.7billion contract from the state-run utilities firm Marafiq to build the power and desalination plant.

Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thunayan, chairman of the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, was on Sunday briefed on the progress at the sea front tourist project of Yanbu Industrial City by the commission’s CEO Ala bin Abdullah Naseef.

The project, that seeks to lure more tourists to the region, occupies an area of 380 hectares and will be implemented in four phases, including the draining of seawater to make room for the shores.

The construction of two islands, Al-Jar and Al-Nuras, has already finished, according to project engineers. The scheme is considered one of the mega entertainment and investment projects on the Red Sea. It is also considered an economic scheme that encourages investments and ensures the participation of the private sector.

“The project strikes a balance between public entertainment and private sector investment,” a Saudi engineer said.

The seafront to be developed will be 11 km long and consist of green areas, beaches, hotels, restaurants and other facilities. The chairman also toured the Yanbu Technical Institute, which will accommodate about 1,500 students. The institute is composed of six main buildings including administration offices and classrooms for commercial and catering studies, and tourism.

In addition, Prince Saud inspected the housing project for teachers and students of the institute and of the Yanbu Industrial College.

The institute has four buildings comprising 416 rooms, while the college has 10 buildings with 1,040 rooms, extending over an area of 40,000 square meters.

لو لم يواكب هالعمران كله تطور سريع في انتاج الكهرباء والماء فنحن مقبلين على ازمة

New Yanbu hospital to serve 300,000 people

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Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed is briefed on Yanbu General Hospital by Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah after opening the facility on Wednesday.

Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed opened a 300-bed general hospital in the industrial city of Yanbu on Wednesday. The hospital was established at a cost of SR220 million.

The opening ceremony was attended by Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, Madinah Police Director Maj. Gen. Saud Al-Ahmadi and Dr. Abdullah Al-Taifi, health director in the province.

The governor accompanied by Al-Rabeeah and other senior officials toured the advanced facilities at the hospital that has started operating at full capacity. He also visited some patients and wished them a quick recovery.

He also laid the foundation for a kidney center at the hospital. The 30-bed center, which is to cost SR18 million, will operate in a two-floor building.

The hospital will serve about 300,000 people in Yanbu and its surrounding villages.

“It will serve as a referral hospital for people of Badr, Al-Eis, Yanbu Al-Nakhl and Umluj,” an official statement said, adding that the construction cost reached about SR110 million, while the cost for furnishing and equipping the facility amounted to SR110 million.

The hospital has 20 specialized clinics for rheumatism, dermatology, general surgery, internal medicine, maternity and children, ophthalmology, ENT, dentistry, cardiology, neurology and urology.

Meanwhile, Al-Rabeeah commended the new budget for 2012, which has allocated SR87 billion for health and social development, adding it would boost health services across the country.

“At present there are 195 health projects under construction including five health cities and 97 hospitals,” the minister said, adding that 44 hospitals are being renovated.

The new projects also include 22 medical towers, eight diabetes centers, 11 dental centers and 13 medical laboratories and blood banks.

“All these projects, which are estimated to cost SR41 billion, will cover all parts of the Kingdom and contribute to improving health services,” Al-Rabeeah said.

Saudi Aramco, Sinopec set to sign refinery deal

Saudi Aramco will sign a final deal next week to build a new 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) oil refinery in Yanbu with China’s Sinopec Group, the company said.

Aramco said the formal signing would take place on Jan. 14 in Dhahran, the site of the state company’s headquarters.

Industry sources had expected the two oil majors to finalize their 2011 initial agreement in November last year.

Under the initial agreement, Saudi Aramco will hold a 62.5 percent stake in the joint venture formed to develop the project — now rebranded as Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Co. (YASREF) — while Sinopec will own the rest.

For Sinopec, the venture would be the first refining project the Chinese state-run oil major, parent of top Asian refiner Sinopec Corp, builds outside China, putting it in a race against PetroChina which has snatched a string of refinery deals beyond Chinese borders.

Construction of the refinery, located on the Red Sea, is now underway and was to have been carried out by US oil firm ConocoPhillips and Aramco. But Conoco pulled out of the plans in April 2010 as it shifted away from the refining business to focus on oil and gas exploration.

Aramco has said it will push on with the project even after the withdrawal of Conoco as it is part of its drive to boost domestic refining capacity to 3.5 million bpd in 2016. In July 2010, Aramco awarded deals to build the plant seen complete in 2014.

The refinery is slated to process heavy crude from Saudi Arabia’s Manifa oilfield, which is currently under development to reach an output of 900,000 bpd by 2014.

Aramco has already partnered with Sinopec at the joint venture Fujian plant in southeast China. It is considering to build three new joint venture refineries in Asia, Aramco’s largest and fastest growing oil market as part of plans to boost its global refining capacity by 50 percent to over 6 million bpd.

Aramco, Sinopec sign SR32bn Yanbu refinery deal

Saudi Aramco and Sinopec Group of China took another giant leap forward with the signing on Saturday of a landmark SR32 billion ($8.5 billion) joint venture agreement to set up an ultramodern, highly sophisticated, full-conversion oil refinery in Yanbu.

Called simply YASREF, the Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Co. Ltd. will begin production in the second half of 2014, processing 400,000 barrels of heavy crude a day. Saudi Aramco will hold a 62.5 percent stake in the plant while Sinopec Group will own the remaining 37.5 percent.

Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid Al-Falih and Sinopec Group Chairman Fu Chengyu signed the agreement at the Saudi Aramco headquarters here in Dhahran in the presence of Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi; Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thunayan, chairman of the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu; Prince Faisal bin Turki, adviser to the minister of petroleum mineral resources; Dr. Khalid S. Al-Sultan, rector of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals; Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Abdul Rahman Al-Jeraisy; Asharqia Chamber Chairman Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed and a number of leading Saudi and Chinese businessmen.

“This is the fourth joint venture between our two enterprises,” said Al-Falih. “YASREF takes its rightful place next to our two downstream companies in China’s Fujian Province, and our in-Kingdom upstream joint venture, Sino-Saudi Gas Ltd.,” he said and proudly pointed out that Sinopec was Saudi Aramco’s largest crude oil customer.

YASREF will create 1,200 direct jobs and over 5,000 indirect jobs. “It holds enormous potential and promise, because it will boost the Saudi economy and create new opportunities for local enterprises and entrepreneurs,” said Al-Falih.

As Asia’s largest producer and supplier of oil products, Sinopec Group brings technical and commercial expertise to the joint venture while Saudi Aramco adds value with its unparalleled strengths in resources, management and host advantage.

The refinery is already under construction and will be spread over an area of 5.2 million square meters. Its giant size can be gauged from at least two facts. During the refinery’s construction more than 80,000 tons of structural steel will be utilized which is enough to construct a new Golden Gate Bridge; and 430,000 cubic meters of concrete will be poured into its foundation which is enough to build two Kingdom Tower buildings like the one in Riyadh.

The facility’s location in Yanbu, next to two other refineries, is ideal for supplying both overseas markets and the Kingdom’s fast-growing Western region.

“The various world-class local and international refining and petrochemical investments Saudi Aramco is making is proof of our firm belief that the downstream remains an attractive and profitable business,” said Al-Falih. “Over the next decade, our total global refining capacity is expected to approach 8 million barrels a day as a result of this largest expansion by any oil company in the world.”

Saudi Arabia continues to remain a fantastic destination for foreign investment. “YASREF stands as a testament to the sound climate for foreign direct investment in Saudi Arabia, and it is yet another indicator of the attractive business opportunities this nation has to offer strategic investors,” he said.

As Al-Falih pointed out, the latest joint endeavor is simply the most recent chapter in a long story of cooperation, collaboration and trade between the Arabian Peninsula and China.

“For many centuries, trade routes have linked these two poles of Asia, through an exchange of not only goods, but also of ideas, knowledge and culture, which led and continues to lead to greater prosperity for both of our civilizations,” said Al-Falih.

Fu expressed delight at the agreement. “This is a milestone on the journey of cooperation between our two companies,” he said. “We trace our relationship back to the early 1990s when we started downstream venture discussions in China; since then Sinopec and Saudi Aramco have developed cross-border cooperation along the hydrocarbon value chain, covering upstream and downstream investment, crude oil trading and engineering services.”

Fu admitted that the path to cooperation was full of challenges in the initial stages. “In the beginning we found that we are very different — we speak Chinese, and our friends in Saudi Aramco speak Arabic, both languages being the most difficult to learn; we write from left to right, our friends the opposite,” he said. “But over time we found a lot of commonalities; we soon realized that our core values are the same.”

With a 37.5 percent stake in YASREF, this is the largest Chinese investment in the Kingdom. China now stands as the Kingdom’s largest crude oil market, making Saudi Arabia China’s primary supplier of petroleum.

“I look forward to the day when we meet again in 2014 to formally inaugurate this landmark project,” said Al-Falih in his closing statement.

Royal Authority sets up new projects in Yanbu

Prince Saud Bin Abdullah Bin Thunayan Al-Saud, chief of the Royal Commission for Jubail, in his office in Riyadh signed three contracts worth SR155 million to set up new subways and two schools for girls in Yanbu.

The industrial cities that belong to the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu have been witnessing an increasing growth of population and industrial movements, which have forced the authority to find more facilities and services to fit with this expansion, that will help the settlers of the two industrial cities.

The Royal Commission provides regular maintenance to the properties of machines and equipments. This continuous maintenance keeps it protected.

The first contract was signed with Al-Harby Contracting and Trading Company Ltd., which will set up three subways on the west of the Abdul Aziz Road that links the industrial Yanbu and the sea Yanbu. The subways will help to complete the infrastructure works in the neighborhoods of Al-Jar and Al-Musheireef located in the housing area in industrial Yanbu.

These works are allocated in the first stage of this project. They include providing the equipment, workers and materials to finish and maintain all the works explained in the contracts, then doing the temporary, additional, and complementary works and the changes needed according to the contracts. The project will be executed within two years.

The second contract was signed with the Specialist Contracting Company Ltd. that will set up two girls schools - one is an intermediate school near Al Jabriya 2 and the other is a high school in Al-Alfaisal 1. Both of them are in the industrial Yanbu. These two schools will be part of the group of 32 schools with 17000 students, belonging to the Royal Commission in Yanbu.

The two schools will be well-built, each one will include the administration offices, laboratories, clinics, playground, library, cafeteria, prayer place, and a veranda covered. The total area of the high school is of 39,000 square meters, and that of the intermediate school 30,500 square meters, with roads, car parking, water networks, electricity and communications, in addition to planting trees and providing irrigation and air conditioning and protecting them from fires.

The third contract was signed with Al-Jureisi Computer and Communication Company that will maintain the computers belonging to the Royal Commission for Jubail. The company will raise and improve the operation systems and provide the technical support services to the computers and all applications of computer. The contract lasts for three years.