Stone & Webster wins Yansab aromatics contract

19 April 2006 17:49  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--US engineering contractor Stone & Webster has won an outline contract to build a butene and aromatics plant at Yanbu in Saudi Arabia for Sabic affiliate Yanbu National Petrochemical Company, Sabic said on Wednesday.

Due onstream by the end of 2008, the plant will have an annual design capacity of 135,000 tonne of butene and 205,000 tonne/year of benzene, toluene and xylene mixtures.

Stone & Webster's contract will cover design, supply and construction of the plant. Value of the contract was not disclosed.

"This LOI [letter of intent] completes the contractual process for all of Yansab's plants which are expected to go onstream by 2008, with an annual capacity exceeding 4m tonne/year," said Sabic vice chairman and chief executive Mohamed Al-Mady.

The plants include facilities with annual capacities of 1.3m tonne of ethylene, 400,000 tonne of propylene, 900,000 tonne of polyethylene, 900,000 tonne of polypropylene and 770,000 tonne of ethylene glycol (EG).

The butene-1 facility will use technology developed by Sabic in co-operation with the French Petrol Institute, added Al-Mady.

Earlier this year, Stone & Webster was awarded a letter of intent to build a 400,000 tonne/year high density polyethylene (hdPE) plant in Yanbu for Yansab.

By: Neil Sinclair
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