Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 52

26-December-2005

SAUDI ARABIA

GACIC Starts BDO Production At Jubail Plant

Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) announced on 28 November that its affiliate Gulf Advanced Chemical Co (GACIC) had started production at its Butanediol (BDO) plant in Jubail. The project took just under 33 months to complete by prime contractor Aker Kvaerner (MEES, 8 March 2004). The plant successfully started initial production in October 2005 and is going...