Borouge, a petrochemical company, announced Sunday the award of the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the world-scale fourth expansion of its manufacturing complex in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.
ADNOC and Borealis AG recently signed a strategic partnership that confirms a $6.2 billion (AED22 billion) investment agreement to build Borouge 4.
Borouge said the EPC award underscores its drive to unlock opportunities in polyolefin manufacturing, enable industrial growth, and maximize the value of every barrel produced in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
With this expansion, Borouge said it will become the world’s largest single-site polyolefin complex. The facility will also enable the next phase of growth at the Ruwais Industrial Complex by supplying feedstock to the TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone.
The company said the value of the contracts will contribute to UAE In-Country Value, with 60 percent of all engineering, procurement, commissioning, and construction activities managed by local companies and locally manufactured products, and materials.
The award supports ADNOC’s In-Country Value (ICV) program and highlights how Borouge and its shareholders continue to focus on ICV as it delivers on its 2030 strategy, the company said.
The scope of the award covers engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities for the polyolefin complex facilities required to facilitate the full production capacity of two new polyethylene plants – each with a capacity of 700,000 tonnes per annum, using the third generation of Borealis Borstar technology. These plants will be supplied by a world-scale ethane cracker with a capacity of more than 1.5 million tonnes per annum of ethylene.
Borouge 4 will boost the company’s annual polyolefin production to 6.4 million tonnes, representing a fourteenfold increase in the overall production capacity since the first Borouge facility, producing 450,000 tonnes of polyethylene per annum was commissioned in 2001.