New plant for Yansab complex
Project Name: Ethylene glycol plant
Project Location: Yansab Complex, Yanbu Industrial City
Client: SABIC
Contact Details: Homood Al-Tuwaijri, Vice President (Petrochemicals Coordination)
Sabic, PO Box 5101, Riyadh 11422, Saudi Arabia
Phone: +9661 225 8000
Fax: +9661 225 9000
Contractor: Toyo Engineering Company
Project Details:
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) has recently signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Toyo Engineering Company of Japan for the design, supply and construction of an ethylene glycol (EG) plant at Yansab complex, Yanbu Industrial City.
The plant, the third that Sabic has awarded a contract within this complex, will have a capacity of 700,000 tonnes per year (tpy).
Yansab, the most recent Sabic affiliate, will be the largest petrochemical complex with an annual capacity exceeding four million tpy of various petrochemical products including 1.3 million tpy of ethylene, 400,000 tpy of propylene, 900,000 tpy of polyethylene, 400,000 tpy of polypropylene, 700,000 tpy of ethylene glycol, 250,000 of benzene and xylene and toluene, and 100,000 tpy of butene-1 and butane-2.
Sabic owns 55 per cent of Yansab capital.
Yansab uses the latest world-class state-of-the-art technologies in its plants including Sabic license owned technologies such as scientific design high-tech which is 50:50 owned by Sabic and Sud-Chemie of Germany for the production of ethylene glycol as well as LLDPE and butane-1 technology.
Foster Wheeler wins Borouge deal
Project Name: Borouge expansion
Project Location: Ruwais, Abu Dhabi
Client: Borouge
Contractor (PMC): Foster Wheeler International
Contact Details: John Carlo Cotone, Resident Regional Manager
Foster Wheeler PO Box 26702 Abu Dhabi, UAE
Phone: +9712 622 2117
Fax: +9712 622 2119
Contractor (Financial Advisory): HSBC
Project Details:
Abu Dhabi-based Borouge has recently awarded the project management consultancy (PMC) to Foster Wheeler International and the financial advisory contract to HSBC for the $2.5 billion expansion of its petrochemical complex in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
The proposed complex, which now enters the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase, will expand its production capacity to two million tonnes of enhanced polyolefins (polyethylene and polypropylene) per year from its 2005 capacity of 600,000 tonnes.
The award follows the conclusion of a feasibility study commissioned by Borouge owners, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Borealis A/S of Denmark.
The new expansion, which will be located next to Borouge’s existing petrochemical complex in Ruwais, is expected to be completed in 2010. The downstream units will comprise one 540,000 tonnes per year (tpy) Borstar technology enhanced PE unit and two 400,000 tpy Borstar PP units.
The new capacity will be marketed mainly to the Middle East and Asia Pacific targeting the high end differentiated applications in the added value pipe and high performance packaging areas.
Borouge brings the best of European technology to one of the Middle East’s most modern plants. It was established in 1998 as a joint venture between Adnoc and Borealis A/S, one of Europe’s largest polyolefin producers. Today, Borouge produces Borstar bimodal Enhanced Polyethylene. In addition to promoting its own polyethylene products, Borouge also oversees the distribution and marketing of Borealis’ speciality polyolefins in the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
OCPL to build unit in Hamriyah
Project Name: Ammonia/urea plant
Project Location: HFZ, Sharjah
Client: Oman Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals (OCPL)
Contact Details: OCPL,
Phone: +968 - 25654156
FAX +968 - 25651003
P O Box 436, Postal Code 512, Al Buraimi, Oman
Project Details:
A $200 million ammonia/urea plant is to be set up in the Hamriyah Free Zone Authority (HFZA) in Sharjah by the Muscat-based Oman Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals (OCPL).
OCPL, the only bulk drug manufacturer in the Middle East and Africa, also signed a 25-year agreement with the Sharjah-based Crescent Petroleum for the supply of natural gas.
The construction of the plant will start immediately. First phase production of 400,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of ammonia will commence by April 2007 with phase two production of urea and other products to start in 2008.
High prices and a shortage of ammonia in the world market spurred the company on to setting up its own ammonia plant. The plant will meet the company’s own needs of ammonia, which it currently imports, and also export 75 per cent of the production.
The plant’s annual turnover is expected to top $80 million.
The company’s decision to set up its first ammonia plant in HFZ was due to the availability of cheaper gas supplies at the rate of $1.5 MMBtu (million metric British thermal unit) compared with $6 MMBtu in Europe. The plant’s natural gas requirement is about 45 million standard cubic feet per day.
The project requires 60,000 sq m of land for its phase one operating facilities including product storage.
Production of urea will be carried out as part of phase two development and it will be followed by production of nitric acid, ammonium nitrate and ammonium phosphate.
Technology from MW Kellogg, considered among the best available in the world today, has been procured for this plant.
OCPL manufactures and markets bulk semi-synthetic penicillin with sales in Middle East, Europe, Far East and India. Set up 14 years ago, the company has an annual turnover of $45 million.
$15m expansion for Asry
Project Name: Asry expansion
Project Location: Hidd, Bahrain
Client: Asry
Contact Details: Saleh Salman, Public Relations Officer
Asry, PO Box 50110, Hidd, Bahrain
Phone: +973 17 674 042, 671 111
Fax: +973 17 670 236
Project Details:
The Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (Asry) has approved a BD5.6 million ($15 million) expansion of the yard.
The expansion entails the construction of three new berths, each 140 m long, which would greatly enhance Asry’s capability in repairing ships of all kinds.
The expansion means that Asry would be able to accommodate many more smaller and medium-sized vessels, leaving larger berths for super-tankers and larger ships.
The expansion is currently in the feasibility and planning stage.
The seven OAPEC countries - Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq and Libya - own Asry. The yard was first conceived in 1968 with the aim of building and operating a well-equipped and efficient repair yard, with sufficient capacity to accommodate the VLCC/ULCCs serving the Arabian Gulf oil terminals.
