MOSCOW (MRC) -- Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell have launched the logo of the Al-Karaana Petrochemicals Complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City and also announced the award of the project’s front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Fluor, a global engineering construction company, informed GV.
This is an important milestone for the project as it completes the full scope and definition for the development of this world-scale facility.
The scope under consideration for the Al-Karaana Petrochemical Complex project includes the following: a world-scale steam cracker, with feedstock coming from natural gas projects in Qatar; a 1.5 million t/y mono-ethylene glycol plant using Shell’s proprietary OMEGA (Only MEG Advantaged) technology; a 300,000 t/y linear alpha olefin unit using the proprietary Shell Higher Olefins Process; and a 250,000 t/y OXO alcohols unit. As reported ealier, Mitsubishi Chemical will provide its production technology of oxo alcohol to the new petchem complex.
We remind that, as MRC informed previously, Saudi Arabia's largest petrochemical company SABIC and the Anglo-Dutch company Shell are considering expansion to its joint project Sadaf. The companies plan to build a plant for the production of styrene, propylene oxide and polyurethane.
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