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WA throws support behind urea project

18th August 2020

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

     

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The Western Australian government will be providing conditional support to the planned A$4.6-billion Perdaman urea project, being developed in the Pilbara.

Regional Development Minister Alannah MacTiernan on Tuesday said that the state government had provided A$35.5-million for road relocation costs and for detailed design of a new Dampier Cargo Wharf and upgrades to seawater supply infrastructure.

The government has also provided conditional funding support towards common-user infrastructure, including the upgrading of the existing seawater supply scheme in the Burrub Strategic Industrial Area, and expansion of the Dampier Cargo Wharf.

The proposed project will transform natural gas into urea, which is used as a form of fertilizer for food production. The facility is expected to produce some two-million tonnes a year of urea, generating A$850-million annually in export earnings, with developer Perdaman having secured 20 year’s worth of natural gas supply from oil and gas major Woodside.

"This will be the first new gas manufacturing project in the Pilbara for 15 years,” said MacTiernan.

"The Perdaman urea project would create thousands of jobs in construction and around 300 Karratha-based jobs during operations, and will help to diversify the Pilbara economy.”

The project would create an estimated 2 500 jobs during construction and 300 permanent residential jobs during operation and is helping to underpin development of the Scarborough gasfield.

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