International companies are preparing to submit technical proposals to Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge)by 19 July for the contract to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services on the third-phase development of its Ruwais complex. Among the PMC contractors expected to bid for the post are Foster Wheeler, Jacobs Engineeringand Parsons Corporation, all US-based. The front-end engineering and design (FEED) package will not be part of the PMC contract and will be tendered separately.
A feasibility study for the phase 3 project will be completed in the first quarter of 2005. Phase 3 covers construction of a 1.4 million-tonne-a-year (t/y) ethane cracker with downstream units, to be completed in 2008/09. Work is due to be completed in early 2005 on phase 2 of the Borouge development programme, covering the debottlenecking of the existing 450,000 t/y of polyethylene (PE) capacity. Italy's Tecnimontis carrying out the estimated $40 million project, which will see PE capacity rise by 130,000 t/y (MEED 11:6:04).
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