Advisian has won the pre-front end engineering and design (pre-Feed) contract for the Borouge 4 petrochemicals plant expansion in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.

Borouge, a joint venture of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Austria’s Borealis, awarded the pre-Feed and licensor evaluation to Advisian, which is a consultancy firm owned by Australia-based WorleyParsons.

MEED in March quoted Borouge’s CEO Ahmad Omar Abdulla saying that the pre-Feed work for Borouge 4 was ongoing.

The Borouge 4 plant will include the world’s largest single train mixed feed steam cracker and associated petrochemical derivatives.

The steam cracker will feed units producing polyethylene and polypropylene products totalling approximately 2.5 million tonnes per annum.

Borouge 4 is a core element of Adnoc’s $45bn-worth strategy of creating one of the world’s largest integrated refining and petrochemicals complexes in Ruwais, and is central to its goal of tripling petrochemical output by 2025.

Advisian’s team based in the UAE is working on the pre-Feed project, and being supported by the company’s centres of excellence in London, Houston and Toronto.