VOL. XLIV

No 52

24/31-December-2001

UAE

Borouges 600,000 T/Y EthylenePlant On-Stream

Abu Dhabi Polymers Company(Borouge) announced on 13 December that its 600,000 ton/year ethylene cracker part of a $1.2bn petrochemicals complex at Ruwais had come on-stream, withthe first exports scheduled for January 2002. The contract for the constructionof the ethylene plant was awarded to Eastern Bechtel of the US and Linde ofGermany in November 1998 (MEES, 16November 1998). Two polyethylene plants, with...