Orpic
Orpic
Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Co. () has awarded contracts for its Liwa plastics project in the Sultanate of Oman.
CB&I - the US-based leading energy infrastructure-focused organisation specialising in projects for oil and gas - was handed the contracts in July. The company will provide expertise in elthylene technology and front-end engineering and design to be implemented at the Liwa site, which is based in Oman's Sohar Industrial Port Area.
LyondellBasell will provide its own Spheripol polypropylene process technology for the 300,000-tonne-per-year polypropylene plant.
The facility is scheduled for completion in 2018 and the value of the project has not been disclosed by those involved.
When finished, the Liwa site will include the grassroots 800,000-tonnes-per-year ethylene plast, a pygas unit, a methyl tertiary butyl ether and butane-1 unit, two polymer plants, a gas plant and pipeline, in addition to related amenities and utilities according to the Oil and Gas Journal.
Orpic has previously said the Liwa plastics project - which will be adjacent to the company's existing petrochemical and refinery plants at Sohar - is valued at $3.6 billion (€2.7 billion, £2.1 billion).