Emirates Steel, the only integrated steel plant in the UAE, owned by SENAAT, hosted a site tour to its plants in Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi for participants and guests of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) 50th Annual Conference that took place for the first time in Dubai, and concluded its activities on 12th October 2016.
Emirates Steel’s plant tour began with a safety briefing and a presentation from the Health and Safety Team including a short video, followed by plants visit where participants followed safe walkways supervised by the tour guide and the company’s officials.
The tour schedule also included a visit to Masdar facilities, where participants were updated on the first strategic joint CO2 capture, usage and storage project in the Middle East, between Emirates Steel, Masdar and ADNOC.
Attendees were briefed on the core idea of the project, that focuses on utilizing the CO2 generated by Emirates Steel plants to feed the project when it goes operational, including a detailed presentation on its three elements of the industrial capture of CO2 from Emirates Steel’s facilities; compression, dehydration and transportation of the CO2 from the Masdar carbon capture facility (CCF) to an ADNOC onshore oil field, and finally usage of injected CO2 for enhanced oil recovery.
Specialists demonstrated benefits of the project that will liberate precious natural methane gas traditionally used to pressurize oil wells and aid oil recovery to instead be used for traditional power generation and water desalination, in addition to its massive contribution to Emirates Steel’s carbon footprint with plans to sequester up to 730,000 tons of CO2 annually, which is equivalent to planting around 100,000 trees.
The site tour was attended by representatives of global steel companies and associations from around the world participants of the worldsteel 50th Annual Conference, officials of Emirates Steel and Masdar.
The worldsteel 50th Annual Conference concluded on 12th October. H.E. Saeed Ghumran Al Remeithi, CEO, Emirates Steel, participated; alongside regional industry leaders; in the main discussion panel focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. The closing day also included a presentation analyzing the “Short Range Outlook”.
The Conference brought together leaders of global steel companies and associations from around the world representing about 85% of the world steel production, world leading steel manufacturers and industry specialists and research centers. Emirates Steel has been part of this world leading excellence hub since 2012.