Name of client  : Oman Oil Refineries and Petrole   um Industries (Orpic)
Budget  : $900 million
Facility type  : Ethylene
Sector  : Petrochemicals
Status  : EPC ITB
Location :  Sohar
Feed  : Chicago Bridge & Iron Company    (CB&I)
PMC  : Engineers India Ltd (EIL)

Background

The Liwa Plastics Project includes 3 parts: – Upstream: Gas extraction plant located at Fahud – Midstream: 280 kilometers gas export pipeline from Fahud to Sohar – Downstream: Sohar Integrated Petrochemical Complex The purpose of Liwa Plastics Project is to increase the production of plastics will from the current 200,000 tonnes per year (tpy) to 1.4 million tpy by 2018. The existing Sohar refinery is treating 116,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil with propylene output 40 per cent too short to feed the current polypropylene unit. With the Sohar Refinery Improvement Project Orpic will increase the refinery capacity to 176,000 bpd in order to produce more transportation fuels and to increase the feedstock available for the Liwa Plastics project. Orpic plans to adopt the mixed steam cracker technology in order to accept ethane, natural gas liquids (NGL), mixed liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and other condensate as feedstock (will be supplied by OGC’s LPG and NGL Extraction Plants). The project will use both natural gas products from Sohar refinery to produce high density polyethylene (HDPE), linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) and polypropylene (PP).

Project status

October 2015: Orpic names a consortium of CB&I, Saipem and CTCI as the preferred bidder for the Steam Cracker and the Off-Site Works & Utilities package.

Project scope

The scope of the project includes:
• a nominal 900,000 tonne per year (KTA) ethylene cracking plant
• associated utilities
• off-site facilities

Project finance

Oman Refineries & Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) is the client.

Project schedules

Feed ITB    Q3-2013
Feed     Q4-2013
EPC ITB    Q3-2014
Engineering & Procurement   Q4-2015
Construction   Q2-2016
Completion   Q4-2018