Borouge 4 Petrochemical Project

Summary Information

• Ownership: Borouge
• Website: https://www.borouge.com/
• Location: Ruwais

The Project

• Description: A world-scale ethane cracker with capacity of more than 1.5 million tonnes per annum of ethylene and two new polyethylene plants - each with a capacity of 700,000 tonnes per annum, using the third generation of Borealis Borstar® technology
• Constructor:
  • Technip Energies: Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC)
  • Maire Tecnimont: 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 tons per year each, and 1-hexene (1) unit; the “cross-linkable polyethylene (2) unit package”; the “utilities and offsites package”, which includes the utilities and offsites units for the whole Borouge 4 project.
• Licensors:
  • Ethane cracker: Technip
  • Polyethylene units: Borealis

Production Units

• An ethane cracker
• Two polyethylene plants
• A hexene plant

Raw Materials Supply

• Ethane is supplied by ADNOC from its gas fields

Products Produced

• Polyethylene

Other Information

• The project is an extension of the Borouge Petrochemical Complex

History

• 2021 - Technip awarded Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract
• 2022 - Maire Tecnimont awarded three EPC contracts

Links

1. Borouge Awards EPC Contracts To Build Its Fourth USD 6.2 Billion Expansion In Al Ruways
2. Technip Energies Awarded a Substantial Petrochemical Contract by Borouge in the UAE
3. Maire Tecnimont awarded three EPC contracts worth USD 3.5 billion by Borouge in Abu Dhabi, UAE