MOSCOW (MRC) -- State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) plans to almost triple its petrochemical production to an annual 11.4 MMt by 2025 from 4.5 MMt at present, group chief executive Sultan Al Jaber said on Monday, reported Reuters.
"To achieve this we will seamlessly integrate our petrochemical and refining business, and as supplies of gas become tighter, we will expand our feedstock beyond ethane to include naphtha," Jaber said in a speech at an energy industry conference.
Jaber did not give any details of ADNOC's expansion plan but said the company aimed to take advantage of a shift in demand from lower-growth markets in the West to high-growth markets in Asia.
He also suggested that petrochemical producers in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council should explore new ways of working together, including joint investments in projects.
"By working together, leveraging our combined strengths, aligning our interests and investing together, we can extend our reach, increase our competitive advantages and grow our market share."
ADNOC's petrochemicals are produced by Abu Dhabi Polymers Co (Borouge), which makes polyolefin, and Ruwais Fertilizer Industries (Fertil), which produces urea and ammonia fertilisers.
As MRC informed before, the UAE's Borouge scheduled to start up its 80kta cross-linked polyethylene unit at Abu Dhabi by early 2016. The XLPE unit is a part of the company's Borouge 3 complex, and all the other Borouge 3 units have been started up and running at higher rate gradually. The newly built Borouge 3 complex at Abu Dhabi saw a startup process stretching for all of 2014 and into early 2015. The total PE capacity of the complex is 1.51 million mt/yr, including a 1.08 million mt/year HDPE/LLDPE switch plant, and another 350kta LDPE unit besides the XLPE unit.
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