The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) today announced it has signed a project development agreement with Cepsa of Spain for a new, world-scale Linear Alkylbenzene (LAB) facility in ADNOC’s refining and petrochemicals complex in Ruwais, UAE. The LAB project is one among a number of initiatives to be executed as ADNOC looks to significantly enhance and expand its refining operations and capabilities to support its downstream plans.
The agreement follows the signing last November of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ADNOC and Cepsa to evaluate the setting up of a LAB facility in Ruwais. After the successful completion of a feasibility study, the project is now ready to move to the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) stage. The LAB manufacturing facility will be fully integrated within the ADNOC Refining complex, taking feedstocks of kerosene and benzene and benefitting from the suite of utilities and services of the Ruwais complex. The facility is expected to have a production capacity of 150,000 tons per year of LAB upon completion.
Cepsa is a Spanish integrated oil company, wholly owned by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company. Cepsa has over five decades of experience in LAB and brings market experience and market leading technology that provides the best raw material consumption ratios and excellent health and safety performance. LAB is the most common raw material in the manufacture of biodegradable household and industrial detergents, and is also used in house cleaners and soap bars.
