UAE breaks ground on Ruwais LNG project

ABU DHABI, November 20, 2024 – ADNOC has broken ground on its lower-carbon Ruwais LNG project in Al Ruwais Industrial City in Abu Dhabi’s Al Dhafra region, local media reported on Tuesday.

Ruwais LNG consists of two natural gas liquefaction trains with a nameplate production capacity of 4.8 million tonnes per year (tpy) each. Once operational, the facility will more than double ADNOC’s LNG production capacity, bringing it to more than 15 million tpy. Starting in 2028, it will be majority-owned by ADNOC Gas.

ADNOC reached a FID on the project in June 2024, concurrently awarding USD 5.5 billion in EPC contracts to a joint venture of Technip Energies with JCG Corporation and NMDC Energy.

The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who also visited the site of the Borouge 4 project, a polyolefin complex owned by ADNOC and Austrian plastics manufacturer Borealis and one of the largest industrial projects currently under way in the UAE.

“ADNOC’s landmark lower-carbon Ruwais LNG project, along with Borouge 4, Hail and Ghasha and TA’ZIZ, will provide more lower-carbon energy to the world while strengthening the UAE’s energy security, accelerating in-country value and boosting economic diversification, in line with our leadership’s directives,” said Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the UAE’s minister of industry and advanced technology and CEO of ADNOC.

The Hail and Ghasha project offshore Abu Dhabi will produce 28.3 mcm (1 bcf) per day of natural gas, while the TA’ZIZ chemicals complex, also in Al Ruwais, is set to commence production in 2027 and gradually reach production of 11 million tonnes per year of chemicals not previously manufactured in the UAE.

Photo courtesy of ADNOC

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