July 20, 2009

Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilizers (Perdaman) has selected its coal gasification, ammonia and urea melt and granulation technology providers for the A$3.5 billion Collie Urea Project in Western Australia. The state-of-the-art technologies will be sourced from three international companies.

Stamicarbon will provide the Urea 2000plus™ melt technology with full Safurex® for the synthesis loop and Stamicarbon fluid bed granulation technology. The urea plants will have a capacity of 6200 mtpd in two identical lines of 3100 mtpd each. The other technologies come from Shell for the plant's core coal gasification and gas treatment technology and Haldor Topsoe A/S for the ammonia synthesis technology.

The selection of the technology providers was made four weeks after Perdaman signed a binding Heads of Agreement with Korea's Samsung Engineering and Indonesia's Inti Karya Persada Tehnik (IKPT) for the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) work on the plant.

Stamicarbon is the global market leader in developing and licensing of urea technologies and services and will work closely with the EPC contractors to complete the detailed engineering design work.

Perdaman's Chairman and Managing Director Vikas Rambal said that with the signing of the license agreement the key components for the development of the Collie Urea Project were now in place. "Our technology providers are all leading specialists in their fields and will be contributing valuable expertise to this project in readiness for the scheduled start of operations in 2013," he said.

For further information: www.perdaman.com