VOL. XL

No. 37

15-September-1997

SAUDI ARABIA

Alujain Revisits Preliminary Decision Related To MTBE Plant Construction Contract

The Saudi firm Alujain is in the process of reconsidering a preliminary decision infavor of the Italian firm Snamprogetti with regard to the contractor's $375mn bidsubmission for construction of an 850,000 ton/year MTBE plant at Yanbu (MEES, 28July). The re-evaluation comes in the wake of major technical snags encountered during thecommissioning of the 700,000 t/y...