Foster Wheeler Win PMC Services Contract

Foster Wheeler International Corporation's Abu Dhabi Branch has been awarded a project management consultancy services contract by Abu Dhabi Polymers Company Limited (Borouge) for a major expansion of the Borouge petrochemicals facility at Ruwais, United Arab Emirates. Borouge is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Copenhagen-based Borealis A/S.

"Foster Wheeler is pleased to be selected by Borouge as their PMC partner for this important expansion project," said Steve Davies, chairman and chief executive officer of Foster Wheeler's UK office.

Foster Wheeler will provide professional project management, project control and engineering services to assist Borouge's management team in scope definition, front-end engineering design, contracting, scheduling, and environmental impact assessment up to award of EPC contracts with an option for services during the EPC phase for the project.

"The expansion project, known as the Borouge STEP III project, will more than double the capacity of the existing ethane cracking and polyethylene production units, and also marks our entry into the important polypropylene market," commented Adel-Khalifa Albuainain, Vice President - Projects, Borouge.

The existing Borouge facility includes a 600,000 metric tonnes per annum ethane cracker and also produces 580,000 mtpa of polyethylene. The Borouge STEP III project comprises a new ethylene complex, which includes a 1.4 million mtpa ethane cracker and boilers, a 540,000 mtpa polyethylene unit, two 400,000 mtpa polypropylene units, an olefins conversion unit and associated offsites and utilities. The polyethylene and polypropylene plants will both use Borealis' proprietary Borstar(R) technology. Project completion is expected in 2010.

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Posted 25/07/05

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