Petkim, a subsidiary of SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic), is reported to have awarded Technip Energies engineering and technology contracts on 29 September 2026 for the development of a proposed integrated petrochemical complex. The contracts are said to cover a licence, a PDP (Process Design Package) and FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) for the complex planned at Aliağa on the Aegean coast. The scope is described as an important step in the technical development of the project before any FID (Final Investment Decision) by Petkim.
Technip Energies is reported to provide the licence for a world-scale mixed-feed ethylene cracking unit. The scope also reportedly includes an integrated PDP and FEED services for the whole complex. The award is therefore a licensing and early-engineering contract rather than a construction contract.
The site is Aliağa, Türkiye. The complex is described as built around an ethylene cracker, with an HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene) and LLDPE (Linear Low-Density Polyethylene) complex and a polypropylene (PP) plant. Products are said to serve packaging, consumer goods, automotive components and industrial applications.
Stéphane Mespoulhes, Senior Vice President at Technip Energies, is reported to have said the company would combine its ethylene technology and engineering capabilities to support Petkim through the PDP and FEED phases.
Ethylene capacity is reported at about 1,200 KTA (kilotons per annum), or roughly 1.2 million tonnes per year. Propylene is 550 KTA, and the HDPE/LLDPE complex is 850 KTA, made up of two 425 KTA trains. The polypropylene plant is 550 KTA. Contract value, total investment, and construction and start-up timing have reportedly not been disclosed.
The award is reported to sit at the technology-fixing stage before FID in Petkim’s plans to expand integrated petrochemical capacity, and mixed-feed cracking is presented as a way to keep feedstock options flexible.
First, this is a licence and FEED-stage contract rather than a construction award, indicating that further steps remain before an investment decision. Second, combining a cracker with polyolefin units in one complex reflects an integrated value-chain approach from ethylene to finished resins. Third, choosing mixed-feed cracking technology can be read as a design direction aimed at operating flexibility depending on naphtha, ethane and other feedstock availability. Fourth, having the licensor also perform PDP and FEED links technology and engineering and tends to set the technical basis for any later EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) tender.
First, whether the FEED completion date and Petkim’s FID timing are disclosed. Second, whether total investment and financing arrangements become concrete. Third, how feedstock supply and product marketing plans are settled. Fourth, whether the bidders and contracting approach for the follow-on EPC tender become public.