Project Profile
Value: US$3.6 billion
Location: Al Batinah Region, north of Sohar, Oman
Capacity: unknown
Depth: 300-kilometre
Start-up Year: 2018
Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) is planning to float a tender to appoint a consultant for front-engine engineering design (FEED) for its proposed US$3.6 billion integrated Liwa Plastics project within two months. The project, which is integrated with the existing Sohar refinery for producing polyethylene, polypropylene, and benzene, is scheduled for commissioning by 2018--two years after the completion of the Sohar refinery expansion. The project is located in the Al Batinah Region, Oman, north of Sohar.
Orpic will be fully responsible for the entire project, which has six components: a gas extraction plant in Fahud, a 300-kilometre-long pipeline between Fahud and Sohar Industrial Port for transporting gas, a steam cracker unit, an HDPE plant, an LLDPE plant, and a polypropylene plant. The Liwa Plastics project, once commissioned, will enhance both fuel and plastics production tremendously. Plastics production will increase to 1.4 million tonnes per annum by 2018 from 200,000 tonnes per annum now, while fuels production will touch 11.3 million tonnes from 7.3 million tonnes
Operators:
Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic): Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Engineers India Limited (EIL): PMC contract
Chicago Bridge and Iron Co (CB&I): FEED and licensor of the MTBE producing unit
Axens: Licensor contract for provision of technology for the PyGas Hydrogenation unit
LyondellBasell: Licensor contract awarded to Basell Poliolefine, which will be meeting the technological requirements for the Polypropylene unit (a single bulk polymerisation line that is based on the LyondellBasell proprietary Spheripol)
Univation: Technology provider for the polyethylene unit
Mott MacDonald: FEED contract for the NGL plant
CB&I with CTCI Corporation: Notice of intention of award valued at approximately US$2.8 billion from Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) to provide engineering, procurement and construction for cracker Package 1, which includes the steam cracker and associated utilities for the Liwa Plastics Industrial Complex Project . The scope of work includes EPC for a grassroots 880-ktpa ethylene plant, pygas unit and MTBE unit, as well as all the related off-sites and utilities. CB&I\\\'s scope of work also includes the construction of cryogenic and atmospheric storage tanks and pipe spool fabrication. As previously announced, the cracker will employ CB&I\'s latest, proven ethylene technology, including highly selective SRT® cracking heaters, and its innovative recovery section design, featuring low-pressure separation and mixed refrigeration. (November 2015)