VOL. XLIV

No. 06

5-February-2001

SAUDI ARABIA

Alujain ApprovesPropylene/Polypropylene And Iso-Octane Projects

Jiddah-base private firm Alujainsaid on 29 January that its board had given approval for two petrochemicalprojects. The first, costing an estimated $285mn, is for the development of a350,000 tons/year propane dehydrogenation project to produce polymer gradepropylene in Yanbu' Industrial City. Saudi Aramco will supply the propanefeedstock. In the second part of the project, propylene will...