Borouge awards US$ 1.075 billion contract for ethane cracker in Abu Dhabi to The Linde Group
Contract marks the first major milestone and confirms Borouge’s commitment to its Borouge 3 expansion
Borouge has awarded a contract worth US$ 1.075 billion to The Linde Group to build another 1.5 million tonnes per year (t/y) ethane cracker at its production site in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
“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,” says Abdulaziz Alhajri, CEO of Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge). “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, as well as related off-site utilities and marine facilities.”
The contract will be executed on a ‘lump sum turnkey’ basis whereby the construction work will be executed by the Consolidated Contractors Company (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 t/y and 1.5 million t/y ethane crackers, the latter of which is currently under construction as part of the plant’s expansion from 600,000 to 2 million t/y of polyolefins by mid-2010, and ultimately 4.5 million tonnes of polyolefins annually by 2013.
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