VOL. XXXI

NO. 19

15-FEBRUARY-1988

SAUDI ARABIA

Spie-Batignolles Wins Contract for Solvents Plant

The Saudi-French Hydrocarbon Solvent Company - a consortium of France's Total(with a 10% stake) and 11 Saudi investors - has awarded Spie-Batignolles ofFrance a $35mn contract to build a 70,000 ton/year plant manufacturing solventsat Yanbu'. Feedstock for the new plant will come from the Petromin-Mobil exportrefinery and the Petromin domestic refinery at Yanbu'. The output of aliphaticand aromatic...