ADNOC: $2 billion to develop port infrastructure for exports from the UAE
By on November 27, 2024
Click to learn more. Graphic visualisation of ADNOC’s under-construction ammonia plant in Al Ruwais, UAE. Source: ADNOC.
The TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone – within which a million-ton-per-year, CCS-based ammonia project is currently under-construction – has announced $2 billion in infrastructure funding for key export enablers, including roads and a new port with dedicated chemical terminals. The port will enable the large-scale export of methanol, ammonia and chemicals produced in TA’ZIZ, which is situated in Al Ruwais, some two hundred kilometers down the coast from the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.
TA’ZIZ (which is fully owned by ADNOC) is scheduled to commence production in 2027, which will include one million tons per year of CCS-based ammonia. The ammonia plant itself is being developed in partnership by ADNOC, Mitsui & Co., Fertiglobe, and South-Korea-based GS Energy. In May 2023, Japanese government agency JOGMEC announced that it would work with ADNOC to verify the carbon intensity of the ammonia produced, in anticipation of exports into Japan.
These infrastructure awards are vital milestones in TA’ZIZ’s mission to develop a world-class, integrated chemicals ecosystem to capitalize on growing global demand for low-carbon chemicals and transition fuels. We are well positioned to enable ADNOC’s chemicals growth strategy, while also driving the industrialization and diversification of the UAE’s economy through the creation of new local value chains.
Mashal Saoud Al-Kindi, CEO of TA’ZIZ in ADNOC’s official press release, 6 Nov 2024
The awarded funding includes a series of EPC contracts. UAE’s National Marine Dredging Company Group will lead work on the chemicals port. The export terminals (including tank-to-jetty pipelines, jetty-to-tank pipelines, inter-site pipelines and liquid product storage tanks) will be developed in partnership by Advario and Rotary Engineering–Abu Dhabi. An additional contract for centralized utilities including power transmission, steam, cooling water and water supply will be awarded at a later stage.