VOL. XXXV

NO. 50

14-SEPTEMBER-1992

Saudi Arabia

Liquid Air Engineering of Canada to Build Ibn Sina Recovery Unit

The National Methanol Company (Ibn Sina) has selected Liquid AirEngineering of Montreal, Canada, to build a low-temperature recovery unit forits new 700,000 ton/year methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) plant at Jubail.Scheduled for delivery in the first half of 1993, the unit will recover theisobutane/butylene fractions. Ibn Sina, which went on stream in 1984, has adesign capacity to...