Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 41

10-October-2005

SAUDI ARABIA

Sahara Petrochemicals Selects Daelim, Tecnimont For Olefin Plant Construction Work

Sahara Petrochemicals has selected Korea’s Daelim Industrial Corp and Italy’s Tecnimont to construct a 460,000 tons/year propylene and 450,000 t/y polypropylene plant in Jubail, Sahara announced on 4 October. The $600mn project is scheduled to come on-stream in 2Q 2008. Propane feedstock will be supplied by Saudi...