据安迅思新加坡6月9日消息，国有卡塔尔能源公司和美国生产商雪佛龙菲利普斯化学公司将于本月开始建设双方建议中的拉斯拉凡石化项目。

卡塔尔能源公司在6月8日的一份声明中表示，两家公司已授予Consolidated Contractors Co (CCC)一笔总价合同，用于在卡塔尔北部的拉斯拉凡工业城准备场地。

拉斯拉凡石化项目将拥有一套208万吨/年的乙烷裂解装置，建成后将成为中东地区最大的乙烷裂解装置，同时也将成为全球最大的乙烷裂解装置之一。

卡塔尔能源公司总裁兼首席执行官兼卡塔尔能源事务国务大臣Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi表示：“该项目将使卡塔尔的聚乙烯产能增加约64%。”

卡塔尔能源公司表示，该工地的准备工作将于本月开始，之后预计将授予工程、采购和建设合同。

该项目将于2026年建成投产，比2019年首次公布时的目标晚了1年。

该项目已于2021年完成前端工程和设计，目前正处于EPC招标阶段。

卡塔尔能源公司表示：“当招标完成并做出最终投资决定时，项目将推进到工程、采购和建设阶段。”

安迅思公司曾经报道称，卡塔尔石油公司和雪佛龙菲利普斯化学公司在该合资项目中分别拥有70%和30%股权，该项目将拥有190万吨/年的乙烯产能和168万吨/年的高密度聚乙烯产能，其中包括两套HDPE装置。

卡塔尔石油公司于2021年10月更名为卡塔尔能源公司。

庞晓华 摘译自 ICIS

原文如下：

QatarEnergy, CPChem start work on Ras Laffan petrochemical project

Stated-owned QatarEnergy, formerly known as Qatar Petroleum, and US producer Chevron Phillips Chemical Co (CPChem) will start work on their proposed Ras Laffan petrochemical project this month.

The companies have awarded a lump-sum contract to Consolidated Contractors Co (CCC) to prepare the site at the Ras Laffan Industrial City in northern Qatar, QatarEnergy said in a statement on 8 June.

The Ras Laffan project will have a 2.08m tonne/year ethane cracking unit, “making it the largest ethane cracker in the Middle East and one of the largest in the world”, it said.

“This project will increase Qatar’s polyethylene output capacity by approximately 64%,” said QatarEnergy president and CEO Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, who is also Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs.

Preparation works on the site will begin this month, after which, the contract for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) is expected to be awarded, QatarEnergy said.

Start-up is slated in 2026, a year later than the initial target when the project was first announced in 2019.

The project has completed its front-end engineering and design (FEED) in 2021 and is currently in the EPC tendering phase.

“When tendering is complete and a final investment decision has been made, the project will advance to the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction phase,” it said.

The 70-30 joint venture project between Qatar Petroleum and Chevron Phillips will have 1.9m tonnes/year of ethylene capacity and 1.68m tonnes/year of high density polyethylene (HDPE) capacity with two HDPE units, ICIS had reported.

Qatar Petroleum was renamed QatarEnergy in October 2021.