VOL. XLI

No. 04

26-January-1998

SAUDI ARABIA

Chiyoda To Build Sharq's Third Ethylene Glycol Plant

The Eastern Petrochemical Company (Sharq) has awarded Japan's Chiyoda Corporation a$500mn order to build a 500,000 ton/year ethylene glycol plant at its petrochemicalcomplex in Jubail, according to a report in the Japanese daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun.The contract for the project is expected to be signed at the end of February andconstruction to be completed in the fall of 2000. Chiyoda built...