The refining arm of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc Refining) is set to imminently tender the front-end engineering and design (feed) work for a new crude receiving facility it intends to build.

Adnoc Refining has planned to set up the greenfield project in Abu Dhabi’s Ruwais downstream complex, a source has told MEED.

“This project is for a jetty and a facility to receive crude [possibly] from other countries,” the source said regarding the main scope of work.

“The crude received will then be processed in the Ruwais refinery,” said the source.

The estimated value of the project could not be confirmed at this point.

Adnoc Refining issued expressions of interest (EOI) on 15 July, along with EOI for feed work on the New Refinery project in Ruwais, the source said.

Adnoc Refining had issued the EOIs for the crude-receiving facility project to about 10 engineering firms, including:

• SNC-Lavalin (Canada)
• Neste Jacobs (Finland)
• ILF Consulting Engineers (Germany/Austria)
• WorleyParsons (Australia)
• Doris Engineering (France)