Qatalum Overview

Tom Petter Johansen

Qatalum CEO

Qatar Aluminium (Qatalum)

Qatar Aluminium (Qatalum) is a 50-50 joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Hydro. The state-of-the-art smelter, located in Mesaieed Industrial City, Qatar, commenced production of liquid aluminium from its potlines in December 2009. On the 25 September, 2011, Qatalum reached its full production capacity of 585,000 tpy of aluminium.

Raw materials
-to produce 1 kg of aluminium

4kg Bauxite

2kg Alumina oxide

+
0,5kg Carbon

+
50g Aluminium fluoride

+
50g Cryolite

+
13-15 kWh Electrical energy = 1kg Aluminium

Developing energy resources for the World Development organised through joint ventures Numerous world scale projects: Fertilizer, LNG, GTL, Petrochemicals, etc Expansion of natural gas production and downstream industries

a dominant player in the energy market

In Qatar since 1969 Partner with QP in QAFCO and QVC Aluminium 80 years of experience along the aluminium value chain Strategic focus on upstream growth Competitive smelter and casthouse technology Strong environmental performance Strong market position Excellence in project execution Oil & Gas Aluminium Projects in Qatar

Smelter: 1.31 Km2 (excluding harbor) Length: 1.58 Km

Anode plant

Construction Village
Construction Village: 0.49 Km2

Power Plant
Power Plant: 0.25 Km2

Casthouse

Pot rooms
Potline and Rectifier length: 1.2Km, Width: 0.9 Km)

Silos and Seawater station areas: 0.082 Km2

Silos

Port

Qatalum - A 50/50 Joint Venture between QP and Hydro

Qatalum site, September 2007

10 million tonnes of landfill = 200,000 truckloads Total driving distance ~20 million km 1,500 truck loads per day

Piling, January 2008

June 2008, 7000 people at site and increasing .. peak of 22,000 people on site in August 2009

Construction village

10,000 beds, 5 kitchens and 25+ nations

Qatalum Casthouse during construction, September 2009

First pitch vessel arrived at Qatalums inbound dock, October 2009

Raw material storage at the harbour area

PTM cranes at potline 1

Roding anodes, October 2009

Anode handling and storage, November 2009

Dry out of anode baking furnace, December 2009

Qatalum project and management, December 2009

Pot line -1 team ready for start-up

First pot start, 20 December 2009

First foundry alloy, December 2009

Customer specification foundry alloy ready for market

First export of foundry alloys, Qatar National Day, December 18, 2009

First extrusion ingot charge, January 2010

Qatalum opening ceremony, April 2010

Qatalum sets industry benchmarks through high-quality products, efficient processes, leading-edge technologies and a skilled workforce.

August 9, 2010 The blackout and subsequent shutdown

Clean-up and restart of pots

Removal of metal pads

Clean-up and restart of pots Main clean-up illustration

Move superstructure to cleaned pot Preparation for metal pad removal 2 1

Next pot to be cleaned Superstructure prepared for taking off 6

Put superstructure on cleaned pot followed by MC 5

Pot cleaned, Superstructure off 3 Metal pad removal by crane

C114 ready to go 31.08.2010

The status since 9th August

5th October 2010
Ambition for Qatalum to be fully functional by the end of the first quarter of 2011. The rate of power was 470 MW, and led to a time-out until more reliable power could be made available

30th November, 2010

273 pots out of a total of 704 (38.8%) had been started and potline 2 had been handed over to the Restart Team and Operations

5th April, 2011

Clean-up completed

24th August, 2011

Reduction Maintenance and potline 1 personnel successfully energised section 4 of potline 1

25th August, 2011

Power Group took over the final section of the Power Plant

25th September, 2011

Qatalum-at-full-production... with an excellent safety record
TRIIR (Total recordable injury and illness/based on 1million man hours) = 1.41 (to date)

Qatalum at full production

September 25 , 2011

Qatalums key strengths are

Alloying-material, consumables and general business support

HSE & Standard Operating Procedures Logistic, Sales and Marketing Product quality and customer feedback

Qatalum going forward ...

Our target will be to get below the ten percentile in profitability on the CRU curve, and we will achieve this by adhering to the Qatalum Production System (QPS). July 2010 Qatalum was awarded with ISO 9001/2008 Currently Qatalum is working towards ISO/TS 16949:2009, the automotive prescribed standard

In 2011
2,800 2,400

Cost (US$/t)

2,000

1,600

1,200

800 0 4000

Accumulated capacity World ex China (1000 t)

8000

12000

16000

20000

24000

28000

585,000 mt/y hot metal 350,000 mt/y EI

Source: CRU, BOC 2010: LME 2075 USD/tonne *Qatalum includes a Relining Average of 60 USD/t

275,000 mt/y PFA

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