Corrected: Borouge and Linde ink $1.075bn Borouge III contract

25 May 2010 17:52  [Source: ICIS news]

Correction: In the ICIS news story headlined “Borouge and Linde ink $1.075m Borouge III contract" dated 25 May 2010, please read the headline as “... $1.075bn Borouge III contract" instead of  "… $1.075m Borouge III contract …"

LONDON (ICIS news)--Borouge and Linde have formally signed the $1.075bn construction contract for the 1.5m tonne/year Borouge III cracker, the Abu Dhabi based Borealis/ADNOC joint venture said on Tuesday.

The signing ceremony took place at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi in the presence of Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, it added.

The new cracker will be the third of its kind to be built for Borouge and give the company at Ruwais, AbuDhabi, the world’s largest ethane cracker complex with a total ethlene capacity of 3.6m tonnes/year.

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By: Nigel Davis
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