Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 29

20-Jul-2009

SAUDI ARABIA

Yansab Starts Up Petrochemical Operations

The Yanbu' National Petrochemical Company (Yansab) announced production has started up at its complex in Yanbu' Industrial City. The Yansab complex, which comprises eight plants, will add a total annual capacity of more than 4mn tons/year of petrochemical products, including 1.3mn t/y of ethylene; 400,000 t/y of propylene; 800,000 t/y of polyethylene (both low- and high-density); 400,000...