VOL. XXXVII

NO. 33

16-MAY-1994

Saudi Arabia

SABIC Estimates Saudi MTBE Capacity At 2.68mn Tons By End-1995

By end-1995, Saudi Arabia will have the capacity to produce 2.68mn tons/yearof methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), according to Mr. 'Abd Allah Nujaidi,President of SABIC Marketing. In a paper presented to an oil and gas conference in Bahrain earlier this year, Mr. Nujaidi revealed that by then SABICwill produce 2.6mn tons of the MTBE from four of its subsidiary plants, with theremaining...