S Arabia’s PetroRabigh bids out contracts for new downstream units

Nurluqman Suratman

05-Oct-2015

Petro RabighSINGAPORE (ICIS)–Saudi Arabia’s Petro Rabigh has launched the bidding process for contracts to build new units at its petrochemical and refining complex.

The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) tenders for a new 220,000 tonnes/year polyether polyols plant; a 106,000 tonnes/year sulphur recovery unit (SRU); and a 17,000 bbl/day naphtha treating unit to produce clean fuel, in Rabigh will be issued on Monday, the company said in filing to the Saudi bourse on 4 October.

Works on the new units are expected to start in the second half of next year once the bids are approved, it said.

PetroRabigh is a joint venture between state-owned Saudi Aramco and Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical.

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