Tecnimont S.p.A. signs EPC contracts for the Borouge 4 complex in Abu Dhabi
Published by Bella Weetch,
Editorial Assistant
Hydrocarbon Engineering,
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. has announced that its subsidiary, Tecnimont S.p.A., has signed three EPC contracts with Abu Dhabi Polymers Company Ltd. (Borouge) relating to the fourth expansion phase (Borouge 4) of the Ruwais polyolefins complex in Ruwais, located approximately 240 km west of Abu Dhabi City, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Borouge is a joint venture (JV) between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of the world’s major oil and gas companies and a leading diversified energy and petrochemicals group wholly owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and Austria-based Borealis, one of the world’s leading providers of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions.
The overall value of the three contracts, awarded on the basis of a competitive bidding process, is approximately US$3.5 billion.
The three EPC lump sum turnkey contracts relate to the execution of three packages of the Borouge 4 project: the ‘polyolefin units package’, which includes two polyethylene units with a capacity of 700 000 tpy each, and one hexane unit; the ‘cross-linkable polyethylene unit package’; the ‘utilities and offsites package’, which includes the utilities and offsites units for the whole Borouge 4 project. The project’s scope of work entails complete engineering services, equipment and material supply, erection and construction activities, commissioning and start-up assistance. The completion in expected by 2025. Once the project is completed, the Ruwais complex will be one of the world’s largest single-site polyolefin facilities.
Maire Tecnimont Group has been supporting the UAE to create value by developing its energy transformation industry since the late 1990s, with the first Borouge polyolefin complex (Borouge 1) completed in 2001. After three additional expansion projects in 2007, 2010 and 2018 (Borouge 2, Borouge 3, and PP5, respectively), the Group completed the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) services for the Borouge 4 project in 2020. Maire Tecnimont Group, leveraging its NextPlant portfolio of digital solutions, actively worked right from the FEED stage with Borouge’s team to transform their business requirements into executable digital initiatives: this will ensure excellent EPC execution and improve the operation and maintenance of the new facilities since their inception, in order to make Borouge 4 a ‘future-ready’ industrial complex.
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/petrochemicals/06122021/tecnimont-spa-signs-epc-contracts-for-the-borouge-4-complex-in-abu-dhabi/
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