VOL. XL

No. 7

17-February-1997

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia Inaugurates MTBE And Alloys Projects And Starts Work On New Steel Plant

The Saudi Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and Civil Aviation, Prince Sultan ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, on 13 February inaugurated a methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) plant and a metallic alloys project and laid the foundation stone for a steel plant. Details of these three industrial projects are as follows:

-A 700,000 ton/year plant at Jubail to produce...