Ireland-based Kentz Engineering and Construction Group has won a $33.6 million contract from Bariq Mining to carry out works at its Jabal Sayid project.
Kentz’s Saudi operating unit, Saudi Arabian Kentz Co Ltd, has won the procurement, construction and commissioning contract to carry out the structural, mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumentation works for Bariq Mining’s copper processing plant at its new Jabal Sayid copper mine located in western Saudi Arabia.
The mine will produce copper concentrate with gold and silver credits.
Kentz’s three main business areas are specialist engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, construction, and technical support services. It delivers mechanical, electrical, controls and instrumentation engineering, construction and management services.
The company has been operating in Saudi Arabia for almost 35 years, with a focus on the oil, gas petrochemical and industrial sectors.
Commenting, Dr. Hugh O'Donnell, chief executive of Kentz, said: "Kentz is delighted to be working in association with Bariq Mining on the development of the mining and metals sector in Saudi Arabia. We have a strong core competency in the sector following many years of operation in Africa, Australia and the Caribbean and look forward to bringing this to bear on this fast track project in Saudi Arabia.”
SNC Lavalin, for whom Kentz has worked in the mining and metals sector, is the engineering, procurement and construction management contractor for the project.
Bariq Mining is a subsidiary of Australia’s Equinox Minerals. Its operating licence was the first one to be issued to the private sector by the Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, and forms part of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing development of its mining and metals sector.
Headquartered in County Tipperary, Kentz has over 11,000 employees in 27 countries. In the year ending December 2010, the company generated revenues of $1.06 billion and profits before tax of $67.5 million.
