Corrected: Tasnee on track for end-2008 start up

19 December 2006 09:16  [Source: ICIS news]

Correction: In the ICIS news story headlined "Tasnee on track for end-2008 start up" dated 16 December, 2006, please read in the first paragraph …Tasnee gas-based cracker… instead of …Tasnee’s naphtha cracker… A corrected story follows.

DUBAI (ICIS News)--Saudi Arabia's Tasnee gas-based cracker will start up on schedule at the end of 2008 despite earlier hiccups, a senior official from one of the contractors of the project said on Saturday.

"The cracker is on track to start up at the end of 2008 as per scheduled," said J H Choi, general manager at Samsung Engineering's business development and marketing division.

The project has seen some delay following initial bids that were in excess of the original budgeted cost.

The Basell-Saudi joint venture 1.3m tonnes/year cracker in Al Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia’s eastern Province will produce 1m tonnes/year of ethylene. The facility is part of a larger petrochemicals plant being developed by Tasnee Petrochemicals.

Samsung Engineering - which will handle the construction of the project - has teamed up with Germany's Linde, which will provide the technology.

 

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