Borouge Awards $1b Contract for Building Ethane CrackerPublish Date: 2009-07-03 10:00:14 Story Code: 17356 ABU DHABI - Abu Dhabi Polymers Company, or Borouge, has awarded a contract worth $1.075 billion to the Linde Group to build a 1.5 million tonnes per year ethane cracker at its production site in Ruwais.
The contract will be executed on a ‘lump sum turnkey’ basis whereby the construction work would be executed by the Consolidated Contractors Company or CCC. The new cracker, the third of its kind to be built by The Linde Group for Borouge in one decade, complements the 600,000 tonnes per year and 1.5 million tonnes per year ethane crackers, the latter which is currently under construction. “The awarding of this contract confirms Borouge’s commitment to the Borouge-3 project, a major expansion of our production facility in Ruwais, which will increase the total capacity of the plant to 4.5 million tonnes of polyolefins annually by the end of 2013,” Abdulaziz Alhajri Chief Executive Officer of Abu Dhabi Polymers Company or Borouge said. In addition to the ethane cracker, the expansion includes the construction of second generation Borstar® polypropylene and polyethylene units, a low density polyethylene unit and a Butene unit, and related off-site utilities and marine facilities. “Nowhere else in the world has a petrochemical company installed so much olefins capacity in such a short time as Borouge is currently doing in Abu Dhabi,” Dr Aldo Belloni, member of the Executive Board of Linde AG said. After completion of the new cracker, Borouge will have the world’s largest ethane cracker complex, setting a new benchmark for the industry. Borouge is a joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company or ADNOC and Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions. © Khaleej Times 2009. All rights reserved. Share this story:  Digg
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