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ADNOC progresses

Ruwais ammonia plant

UAE ABU Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) of Industry and Advanced Technology and
announced this week that it is driving forward ADNOC managing director and group CEO,
the development of a world-scale blue ammo- said: “This is a significant milestone in the devel-
nia production facility at its downstream hub at opment of our blue hydrogen and ammonia
Ruwais in the west of the UAE. business, building on the UAE’s strong position
The facility is being developed as part of as a producer of competitive, low-carbon natural
ADNOC’s 60:40 TA’ZIZ joint venture (JV) gas and our leadership role in carbon capture and
with ADQ, which seeks to drive the develop- underground storage [CCUS].”
ment of industrial projects within the planned TA’ZIZ was launched by ADNOC and
Ruwais derivatives park and promote economic holding company ADQ in November last year.
diversification. ADNOC issued tenders for FEED work on pet-
It has now moved to the design phase and will rochemicals projects to be built in the derivatives
be built with a capacity of 1mn tonnes per year park in March, while marine and land surveys
(tpy). for the estimated $5bn complex have been com-
In an official statement, ADNOC said that pleted. According to ADNOC, “agreements
design contracts had been awarded for the initial with the first phase of investors are nearing
front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) finalisation”.
work for the ammonia project and the six addi- Investments in the first phase of the park
tional TA’ZIZ chemicals projects to Wood. are expected to be worth more than $5bn, with
Meanwhile, ADNOC will carry out its own projects being developed to produce ammo-
feasibility study on the supply of blue hydrogen nia, chlor-alkali, elastomers, ethylene-dichlo-
to the project from its operations in Ruwais, ride, isopropyl alcohol, maleic anhydride and
including the 837,000 barrel per day (bpd) methanol.
Ruwais refining complex owned by ADNOC and It will be supported by a port, utilities, feed-
its ADNOC Refining JV partners Eni and OMV. stock supply and logistics infrastructure.
A final investment decision (FID) on the ADNOC currently produces around 300,000
ammonia project is expected to be taken in 2022, tpy of hydrogen, largely for use at its downstream
with start-up targeted in 2025. facilities. It intends to increase hydrogen output
HE Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister to more than 500,000 tpy.™

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