Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 48

30-Nov-2009

SAUDI ARABIA

SABIC And Linde Announce Successful Olefins Commercialization

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Germanys Linde Group have completed the successful commercialization of linear alpha olefins (LAOs) production using the α-SABLIN technology developed by the two firms. In May, a performance test was conducted on a 150,000 tons/year capacity LAO plant recently built in Jubail. SABIC awarded the engineering, procurement and...