Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 20

16-May-2005

SAUDI ARABIA

Technip Wins Yansab EPC Contract For Ethylene/Propylene Plant

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) said on 11 May it had signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Technip for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of an ethylene and propylene plant at the Yansab Complex in Yanbuʹ. The plant will have a nameplate ethylene production capacity of 1.3mn tons/year and 400,000 t/y of propylene. The new large-scale plant...