A-Jubail in Saudi Arabia Source of picture: www.chemicals-technology.com By John Richardson SOME of the privately-owned Saudi Arabian petrochemical producers could well be forced to consolidate as a result of lack of feedstock for expansions, an industry source told the blog yesterday. The private players in Saudi Arabia are listed on the local stock exchange, but […]
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Diminishing Returns From Middle East Projects
Downtown Riyadh By John Richardson As my fellow blogger Malini Hariharan wrote last week “the projects environment in the Middle East has irrevocably changed” and with it the rather glib and outdated assumption still being frequently made that building capacity in the region represents a licence to print money. First of all, as […]
What’s the Future of Ras Tanura?
By John Richardson One wonders what might be the future of the Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical project in Saudi now that it has been officially confirmed that it might be relocated from Ras Tanura to Al-Jubail because of escalating costs. An ICIS news report earlier this week said that the proposed complex could be […]
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