Dugas to expand Jebel Ali MTBE plant

March 13, 2013
Dubai Natural Gas Co Ltd. (Dugas) has let a contract to Tebodin, The Hague, for detailed design of a 35% expansion of its methyl tertiary butyl ether plant at Jebel Ali.

Dubai Natural Gas Co. Ltd. (Dugas) has let a contract to Tebodin, The Hague, for detailed design of a 35% expansion of its methyl tertiary butyl ether plant at Jebel Ali.

Tebodin also will prepare the front-end engineering design and engineering, procurement, and construction tender package for a new butane storage facility, for which it also will prepare an environmental impact assessment.

The project will expand production capacity of the MTBE plant to 675 million tonnes/year from 500,000 tpy.