VOL. XXXVI

NO. 3

19-OCTOBER-1992

SAUDI ARABIA

Nazer Inaugurates Pemref's New MTBE Unit

The Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Mr. Hisham Nazer, on14 August inaugurated the new methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) unit at thePetromin-Mobil Yanbu' Refinery Company (Pemref). The new 120,000 ton/year unitat the joint-venture export refinery was built under the refinery's olefinupgrading project which was approved in June 1990. The main contractor for theproject was Japan Gasoline...