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Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman visited the Sabah Ammonia Urea (SAMUR) project which still under construction in Sipitang Saturday.
The Sabah Ammonia Urea (SAMUR) project here is 46 per cent complete as at May 25, 2013, said head of fertilisers and methanol business of Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd (PCG), Muhammad Shah Ali.
He said the progress of the project was encouraging. "We are confident to achieve 74 per cent completion by year-end," he said.
Muhammad Shah said two-thirds of the RM3 billion capital expenditure announced by PCG this year had been allocated to the fertiliser project in Sabah.
"The RM4.485 billion Samur project is expected to support the requirements of urea in Sabah when it is ready by August 2015," he said.
After the briefing, Musa was presented with a Sabah Oil and Gas masterplan by Petronas (downstream business) Chief Operating Officer/Executive Vice President Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin.
Musa also attended a guided tour of the project site, about 160km from Kota Kinabalu, located within the Sipitang Oil and Gas Industrial Park.
Among those present were Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Industrial Development, Datuk Raymond Tan and his Assistant Minister Datuk Bolkiah Haji Ismail, Minister of Special Functions, Datuk Teo Chee Kang, Assistant Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Kamarlin Haji Ombi who is Lumadan State Assemblyman, MP for Sipitang, Datuk Sapawi Haji Ahmad, State Assemblyman for Sindumin, Datuk Ahmad Bujang, heads of departments and senior officers of Petronas.
