APIC '06: Sabic to finish Jubail debottleneck in June

12 May 2006 14:49  [Source: ICIS news]

BANGKOK (ICIS news)--Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) will complete the debottlenecking of its Jubail United cracker by end June, giving it an extra 100,000-200,000 tonne/year of ethylene, a senior company official said on Friday.

This would bring the cracker’s total capacity to 1.4-1.5m tonne/year, said Yousef Al-Zamei, vice president for basic chemicals. The company has already started up its Jubail United No 2 monoethylene glycol line (MEG), so this would absorb some of the extra ethylene. He said all of the ethylene would go to downstream production.

“Our strategy is to send all of our ethylene to downstream, to add value,” he said at the sidelines of the 27th Asian Petrochemical Industry Conference (APIC).

Al-Zamei said the company was also looking to see how much it can debottleneck its Petrokemya I and Petrokemya III crackers which have combined production capacities of around 2.3m tonne/year. It had debottlenecked Petrokemya I once, so this would be the second debottlenecking, he added.

By: Michael Urquhart
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