Borouge lets contract for Ruwais petrochemical complex
Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. Ltd. (Borouge), a joint venture of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) and Borealis AG, has let a contract to WorleyParsons Ltd. to provide project management consultancy for the proposed expansion of Borouge’s integrated polyolefins complex in Ruwais, about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi City, UAE (OGJ Online, July 18, 2017).
Under the contract, WorleyParsons will provide PMC services for the fourth expansion phase of the petrochemicals complex, which will include the world’s largest mixed-feed cracker with an estimated ethylene output of 1.8 million tonnes/year as well as a total olefins and aromatics production capacity of 3.3 million tpy using a variety of feedstocks such as ethane, butane, and naphtha from ADNOC’s refining and gas processing operations, the service provider said.
The PMC contract follows Borouge’s contract award to WorleyParsons for services on the project’s preliminary front-end engineering and design phase, WorleyParsons said.
A value of the contract was not disclosed.
Earlier in the year, Borouge let a contract to Maire Tecnimont SPA subsidiary Tecnimont SPA to deliver FEED services for the project (OGJ Online, Feb. 26, 2019).
These contracts for the fourth-expansion phase at Ruwais follow Borouge’s earlier award to Tecnimont to deliver engineering, procurement, and construction services for a fifth polypropylene plant (PP5) now under construction at the site that will have a maximum production capacity of 480,000 tpy (OGJ Online, July 13, 2018).
While the PP5 project—which will expand the operator’s polypropylene production capacity by more than 25% to 2.24 million tpy—is scheduled to be completed during third-quarter 2021, the Borouge 4 expansion remains on schedule for startup sometime in 2023.
Both Borouge projects come as part of ADNOC’s previously announced plans to accelerate expansion initiatives at the Ruwais refining and petrochemical complex as part of the company’s $45-billion program to become a global downstream leader under a new combined model of strategic partnerships and investments (OGJ Online, May 23, 2018; May 14, 2018).
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