DESCRIPTION
The Ras Laffan Ethylene cracker to be built in the Ras Laffan Industrial
City (RLC), when completed, will be one of the largest ethylene crackers in
the world.
The Ras Laffan Olefins
Company Limited (RLOC) is a joint venture between Qatar Chemical Company II
Ltd. (Q-Chem II) (53.31%), Qatofin (45.69%), and Qatar Petroleum (1%).
The project comes within an
ambitious programs to utilize and develop hydrocarbon resources to ensure
optimization and utilization of the country’s resources by setting up oil
and gas related projects and, eventually, diversifying sources of income and
creating development opportunities.
RLOC will crack ethane
supplied from the Al Khaleej and Dolphin gas projects to feed the sponsor’s
downstream derivative units. RLOC will produce 1.3 million metric tons per
year (mtpa) of ethylene and transport it to Mesaieed via a 120-kilometer
dense phase ethylene pipeline to be built by the project. The plant is
expected to be operational and start delivering ethylene by the end of
2008.
Qatofin -Q-Chem II’s partner in the ethylene cracker-
is a Qapco-Total subsidiary setup to optimize the utilization of ethane gas
feedstock that will be available in the second half of this decade. The
Qatofin plant, which will be located adjacent to Qapco’s site in Mesaieed,
will produce 450,000 mtpa of Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE).
The EPC
contractor for the Ras Laffan ethane cracker is Technip of France
SCOPE OF WORK
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Earth Works |
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Concrete Works |
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U/G GRP & CS Piping Works |
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Prefabrication & Erection of Pipe
Support |
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Steel Structures |
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Equipment Erection |
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E&I
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