Groundbreaking Performed for $6.2bn Borouge 4 project

Borouge, UAE announced in a statement that His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra Region, witnessed the groundbreaking of the USD 6.2 billion (AED 22 billion) Borouge 4 project during his visit to Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.

Borouge 4 will meet growing customer demand across the Middle East, Africa and Asia and will supply feedstock to TA’ZIZ.

Earlier, during November 2021, The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed a strategic partnership agreement with Borealis AG to build the fourth Borouge facility – Borouge 4 – at the polyolefin manufacturing complex in Ruwais, United Arab Emirates (UAE). (read more)

The details of the contractors executing the project are as follows: (read more)

• The first package for Early Works, was awarded to Al Asab General Transport and Contracting LLC, a leading Abu Dhabi-based construction company. The Early Works package covers engineering, procurement and construction related to site preparation and early works of the world-scale expansion.
• The second package of Borouge 4 was awarded to French construction giant, Technip Energies, in consortium with Target Engineering, to build the Ethane Cracker. This is Borouge’s fourth cracker with a manufacturing capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene output per annum.(read more)
• The last three packages of Borouge 4 were awarded to Italian industrial engineering company, Tecnimont: ­ The third package is for polyethylene and 1-hexene units covering the build of Borouge 4’s two new polyethylene manufacturing plants and 1-hexene unit; a component in the production of high-performance polyethylene.
• ­The fourth package is for utilities and offsites, which consists of constructing non-process buildings, roads, infrastructure, internal and external interfaces, tankage systems, flaring systems, utilities and integration of Borouge 4 with the existing facilities.
• The fifth package is for building the second cross-linkable-polyethylene (XLPE) plant with a capacity of 100 thousand tonnes per annum.

Upon completion at the end of 2025, Borouge will be the world’s largest single-site polyolefin complex.