With only two units of the Rabigh-2 petchems expansion project remaining to be fully tested, Saudi Aramco is gearing up to supply a wide range of feedstocks to firms manufacturing globally in-demand products within Saudi Arabia, at industrial parks alongside its two giant petchems plants.
After Saudi Minister of Energy Khalid al-Falid recently admitted that delays to Rabigh-2 meant its start-up schedule slid into 2018 (MEES, 5 January), operator Petro Rabigh – a JV of Aramco and Japan’s Sumitomo, with 25% of equity traded on the Tadawul exchange – announced this week that 10 out of 12 units have “achieved on-spec production.” (CONTINUED - 599 WORDS)
