VOL. XLIII

No. 27

3-July-2000

SAUDI ARABIA

SIPC Appoints Fluor Daniel To Manage $800Mn Petrochemicals Complex

The privately-owned Saudi International Petrochemical Company (SIPC) has signed a contract with Fluor Daniel for the engineering and management of an $800mn petrochemicals complex in Jubail Industrial City. SIPC, as holding company, is forming three separate ventures to produce 50,000 tons/year of butanediol (BDO), 850,000 t/y of methanol and 200,000 t/y of acetic acid (MEES, 1 November...