VOL. XLVII

No 10

08-March-2004

SAUDI ARABIA

Aker Kvaerner Signs For GACIC Butanediol Project

Aker Kvaerner has signed a lump sum turnkey contract with Gulf Advanced Chemical Company (GACIC) for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of a 75,000 tons/ year butanediol (BDO) plant in al-Jubail in Saudi Arabia (MEES, 9 June 2003). The Norwegian company has been working on the project since signing an early work agreement in March 2003 and the project is expected to start...