VOL. XLVI

No 16

21-April-2003

SAUDI ARABIA

Gulf Farabi Petrochemical To Go Ahead With Private Paraffins/LAB Project

Gulf Farabi Petrochemical announced on 12 April that it was going ahead with a $266mn project to set up two plants in al-Jubail one with a capacity to produce 120,000 tons/year of paraffins, and the other 70,000 t/y of linear alkyl benzene (LAB). Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) bids are being prepared, and the plants are scheduled to come on-stream by end-2004....