Engineering industrial technology for the Kingdom
Gulf Minerals develops industrial technologies across hydrogen infrastructure, industrial energy systems and resource recovery.
Industry loses value in places most people overlook.
KAHF
A developing concept for underground hydrogen storage in hard-rock environments, designed around industrial integration, monitoring and operational safety.
Technical information is shared with qualified partners under confidentiality.
Energy systems
Technologies and partnerships designed to recover, store and reuse energy currently rejected by industrial processes.
Resource technologies
Industrial process technologies designed to convert underutilized streams and by-products into higher-value industrial outputs.
Industrial by-products. Converted.
Bench-scale conversion of phosphogypsum into high-concentration sulfuric acid and other saleable products, turning a stockpiled by-product into inputs the phosphate complex already uses.
Saudi-based processing pathway from REE feedstock to saleable intermediate and separated products, aligned with licensing and compliance requirements.
Bench-scale testing is under way. Technical information is shared selectively with qualified partners.
Recover the energy the plant already produces.
Recovered heat is stored and returned to the process or to power, replacing fuel or purchased electricity.
Technology development
Gulf Minerals develops industrial concepts internally and with selected technical, industrial and research partners.
Projects are anchored by bankable partners, clear governance, and offtake and feedstock structures.
Phosphates
Resource recovery and industrial process technologies for large integrated phosphate operations.
Mining & metals
Process technology, energy integration and resource-recovery opportunities across mineral operations.
Refining
Waste heat, industrial energy recovery and selected resource-recovery applications.
Cement
Industrial heat recovery and energy optimization opportunities around high-temperature operations.
Hydrogen
Storage infrastructure and integrated monitoring for future industrial hydrogen systems.
Technology moves faster with the right partners.
What are you?
Gulf Minerals
Saudi industrial technology company developing new solutions across energy, minerals and infrastructure.
Gulf Minerals originates industrial technology concepts, carries them through engineering development with technical, industrial and research partners, and structures their deployment in Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Fahad Alotaibi
Over a decade of leadership across energy optimization, fuel logistics, industrial efficiency and decarbonization, currently in a senior energy-optimization role in the Saudi energy sector, with earlier roles in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia.
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PhD in Chemistry (University of Sheffield); Executive MBA (Prince Mohammad bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship); MPhil (University of Manchester); MSc in Chemistry (Mississippi College, USA); BSc in Chemistry (Taif University).
Focus: technical excellence and efficient managerial execution, specialized in green, responsible, value-added mineral processing.
Eng. Robert Cox
More than 45 years of leadership in infrastructure project delivery and electrical engineering across energy, mining and minerals, from the FMG and Roy Hill start-ups to full project life-cycle execution.
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Key projects: a giga-scale green hydrogen and ammonia project in Saudi Arabia; Talison Lithium (Australia); Wodgina Lithium Project; PP14 1.86 GW power station (Saudi Electricity Company); Rio Tinto Winu Project; thermal gas-turbine plants.
Designed and implemented an IEC 61850 energy-management system for Ma'aden's fertilizer operations and phosphate mine: real-time data, energy optimization and emissions reduction.
Technical capabilities: 11 kV to 400 kV substations, lithium process-plant design, renewable energy integration, SCADA, grid control and process control. Produced every iron-ore feasibility study in Western Australia from 2007 to 2016 with WorleyParsons, including the FMG start-up and four Roy Hill start-up projects.
Ihsan Malik
More than 26 years of senior leadership in new business development, asset commercial management and cleantech start-ups, formerly with Shell, ADNOC, UBS and ISA Energy.
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Specialized in business development and front-end project development, including commercial structuring, transaction origination and financing, venture strategy and global expansion. Has led subsurface and surface pre-FEED and FEED projects, energy and infrastructure deals, and joint-venture and operated-asset transactions through to implementation.
Degrees from the University of Oxford and executive education at Harvard Kennedy School. Known for delivering cross-functional business opportunities to EPC stage, deal-making and commercial value creation, governance and stakeholder alignment.
