The National Petrochemical Industrial Company (Natpet) affiliate of Saudi petchems firm Alujain has awarded Italy’s Tecnimont a $65mn EPC contract to rehabilitate a polypropylene complex at Yanbu on the Saudi Red Sea coast.
Work will involve rehabilitating units damaged in a fire at the complex in October 2018. Pre-fire output capacity was 400,000 t/y. Natpet aims to bring the plant back online in October 2019. Although the plant is shut down, satellite imagery shows that the fire did not appear to damage all of its units. (CONTINUED - 174 WORDS)