North Ryde NSW, Australia - July 7, 2004

Burrup Fertilisers Selects Yokogawa

Yokogawa Australia is pleased to announce it has been selected as the Main Instrument Vendor for Burrup Fertilisers’ liquid ammonia production plant currently under construction in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. When completed, the Burrup facility will be largest liquid ammonia plant in the world with a nameplate production capacity of 760,000 tonnes per annum.

Following an extensive tendering and evaluation period in Australia and India, Yokogawa was selected as Burrup Fertilisers’ key automation partner. ”Yokogawa Australia’s commitment to quality in every aspect of their business, demonstrated large project expertise and unrivalled experience gained through involvement with other local ammonia plants were the main contributors to Yokogawa’s success” said Vikas Rambal - Deputy Managing Director of Burrup Fertilisers.

The plant will be controlled by Yokogawa’s flagship Centum CS3000 Distributed Control System which, through a process of continuous development and evolution, is arguably the most modern and functional control system available. With case studies proving availability levels of 99.99999% the system also offers unparalleled reliability and allows Yokogawa to claim the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership.

”Strategically the award of this project is very important to Yokogawa” says Trevor Briggs - Yokogawa Australia’s Managing Director. ”The Burrup Fertilisers project allows Yokogawa to gain a very important foot hold on the Burrup Peninsular where significant industrial development is expected to take place in the future. In order to support that market we will open an office in the region this year.”

”The project will also showcase many other Yokogawa products including a fully integrated ProSafe-PLC Emergency Shutdown System, Yokogawa’s new ”FieldEye” Exd rated CCTV cameras with associated ”WebDVR” Ethernet CCTV recording controller, and an extensive array of our field instrumentation”, said Neil Wold - Yokogawa’s WA Manager. ”Additionally, we will be applying our local procurement procedures and expertise to select vendors and supply a wide variety of other instrumentation. This will include sophisticated analyser systems, primary flow elements, instrument valves and even the 250 or so kilometres of instrument cabling required to hang the whole thing together.”

The contract was signed in late February and is currently on track for the control system and the majority of the other equipment to be onsite in August / September. Installation and commissioning work for all the instrumentation packages will begin soon after.

This latest high-profile project success continues Yokogawa’s unbeaten record in competitively winning instrumentation and control contracts for major industrial facilities in Australia, further highlighting the confidence that customers rightly have in Yokogawa.