Koreans ahead for Olefins conversion
South Korea's Samsung Engineering Company is understood to be frontrunner for the contract to build the region's first olefins conversion unit (OCU) at the Saudi European Petrochemical Company (Ibn Zahr) polypropylene complex in Jubail, following the submission of revised commercial bids in early November. Final contractor selection is due imminently (MEED 10:11:06).
The scope of works on the estimated $100 million engineering, procurement and construction contract covers the construction of an OCU with capacity of 288,000 tonnes a year. The OCU will provide feedstock for Ibn Zahr's polypropylene (PP) expansion project through the conversion of butylenes and ethylene into propylene. US-based ABB Lummus Global is the OCU's licence technologyprovider.
The OCU contract is the last of the main packages to be awarded on the Ibn Zahr expansion programme. Samsung won earlier in the year the $300 million contract to build the PP unit. Its compatriot, Daelim Industrial Company, is the offsites and utilities contractor. Oslo-based Aker Kvaerner is the project management consultant (MEED 14:7:06).
Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge) is planning to tender soon the world's largest OCU for its olefins expansion project in Ruwais, in the UAE (MEED 10:11:06)www.meed.com/petrochemicals
South Korea's Samsung Engineering Company is understood to be frontrunner for the contract to build the region's first olefins conversion unit (OCU) at the Saudi European Petrochemical Company (Ibn Zahr) polypropylene complex in Jubail, following the submission of revised commercial bids in early November. Final contractor selection is due imminently (MEED 10:11:06).
The scope of works on the estimated $100 million engineering, procurement and construction contract covers the construction of an OCU with capacity of 288,000 tonnes a year. The OCU will provide feedstock for Ibn Zahr's polypropylene (PP) expansion project through the conversion of butylenes and ethylene into propylene. US-based ABB Lummus Global is the OCU's licence technologyprovider. The OCU contract is the last of the main packages to be awarded on the Ibn Zahr expansion programme. Samsung won earlier in the year the $300 million contract to build the PP unit. Its compatriot, Daelim Industrial Company, is the offsites and utilities contractor. Oslo-based Aker Kvaerner is the project management consultant (MEED 14:7:06). Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge) is planning to tender soon the world's largest OCU for its olefins expansion project in Ruwais, in the UAE (MEED 10:11:06)www.meed.com/petrochemicalsThis content is only available to full MEED package subscribers (MEED magazine and MEED.com).
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