VOL. XXXVI

NO. 7

16-NOVEMBER-1992

SAUDI ARABIA

Sharq's Expansion Project on Schedule

The General Manager of the Eastern Petrochemical Company (Sharq), Mr. Ahmadal-Nakhilan, has recently revealed that the project to expand ethylene glycolproduction from 330,300 tons/year to 750,000 t/y is due for completion in thesecond half of 1993, while that for the expansion of polyethylene output from140,000 t/y to 360,000 t/y should start up in the first quarter of 1994 asscheduled (MEES, 16 December 1991)....