VOL. XLVII

No 21

24-May-2004

SAUDI ARABIA

Linde Wins SABIC Olefins Plant EPC Contract

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) announced on 12 May that it had awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract to Germanys Linde for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a linear alpha olefins plant the first of its kind using the alpha-Sablin technology jointly developed by the two companies. A brief statement from SABIC said the new facility would be constructed on the site of the Jubail...