Middle East Petrochemicals projects

Client

Project

Scope

Status

Oman
OPIC

Olefins complex at Sohar

1 million-t/y ethylene cracker, three PE and two PP units Client is revisiting the scope in light of rising EPC costs

Qatar
Honam/QP

Grassroots complex at Mesaieed

Estimated cost
($ million)
5,000 - 6,000

700,000 t/y of PP, 600,000 t/y of styrene monomer,

200,000 t/y of polystyrene
Grassroots olefins complex at Ras Laffan New ethylene cracker plus 570,000 t/y of LLDPE,
420,000 of LDPE, 700,000 t/y of EG

Bids for cracker contract due soon. Prequalification under way

for downstream units
HoA for project development signed between ExonnMobil and
QP lin 2006. Award on PMS contract due imminently

4,000

Shell Group/QP

Integrated olefins complex

Downstream ethylene products

LoI for development of project signed in early 2005.

Negotiations ongoing for the final investment agreement

4,000

Qafco V

New ammonia and urea plant

3,500 t/d of urea, 4,400 t/d of ammonia

Joint venture of Snamprogetti and Hyundai Engineering &

Construction Company has won the sole EPC contract

3,200

Qapco

PE expansion

250,000 t/y of LDPE

QP plus foreign partner

New aromatics complex

na

Tender for EPC contract due soon. Basell is the technology

provider
QP is understood to be in talks with potential partners from
Europe and Japan about implementing project

ExxonMobil/QP

4,000

400 - 500
na

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Aramco/Dow Chemical Ras Tanura petrochemicals complex (and 1.2 million-t/y ethane/naphtha steam cracker, aromatics
Company
refinery upgrade)
complex, 400,000 t/y of propylene, 400,000 t/y of
benzene, 460,000 t/y of paraxylene plus polyolefins mix,
a 640,000-t/y chlor alkali facility and more than 25 other
downstream units

Dow and Aramco have signed an MoU for the joint venture
agreement, with a final agreement due in 2009. KBR is
working on the FEED. First EPC contracts due to be tendered
next year

22,000 - 26,000

Aramco/Sumitomo Chemical
Company

Petro-Rabigh phase 2

Expansion of cracker, plus 17 new chemical derivative

production facilities

Award for joint FEED/PMC contract due imminently. First EPC

tenders expected to be issued to bid late next year

10,000

Saudi Kayan

Jubail olefins complex

All process packages have been awarded, with financial close

pending. Commissioning is due in late 2009

9,000

Sipchem

Jubail olefins complex plus ammonia

plant

Client is in negotations with Sabic about taking a stake in the

project. Bids for cracker package due soon

8,000

NCP

New olefins complex

Jubail olefins complex

Al-Rajhi
Sahara Petrochemical
Company/Maaden

Jubail petrochemical complex

EDC and chlor alkali complex

JGC Corporation and Dealim Industrial Company have won the

two main EPC deals covering the cracker and downstream
elements
Project is unlikely to proceed due to a lack of available
feedstock
Negotiations ongoing for feedstock allocation
Bids from four Korean contractors have been submitted for
main process package. Jacobs is FEED/PMC contractor

4,000

INEOS/Delta Oil Company

1.3 million-t/y mixed feedstock cracker, 1 million t/y of

EO/EG, 250,000 t/y LLDPE, 600,000 t/y PP, plus 10
other downstream units including a phenolics complex
and polycarbonates
1.2 million-t/y ethane/propane cracker plus bimodal
HDPE, polypropylene, vinyl acetate, polyacrylonitrile and
1,650 t/d of ammonia
1.3 million-t/y ethane cracker plus various downstream
units including hexane-1, propylene, PP, PE, polystyrene
and styrene
2 million-t/y ethane cracker plus several downstream
units including PE
Ethane cracker, PP and EG units
245,000 t/y of EDC and 250,000 t/y of caustic soda na

Petrokemya

Jubail ethylene crackers

Expansion and debottlenecking of Jubail ethylene

crackers Increasing cracker unit 1 capacity by 20 per
cent

Stone & Webster awarded EPCM services contract, but deal

has now been put on hold pending a final investment decision
by the client

02/05/2016

2,000
4,000
500

400

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