GPCA 14 Petro Rabigh phase II on track for 2016 completion

SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Petro Rabigh’s second phase of expansion (Rabigh phase II project) in Saudi Arabia is on track to be completed in 2016, industry sources said on Monday.

The expansion includes building a new aromatics complex at the project site in Rabigh, using additional 30m standard cubic feet/day of ethane and approximately 3m tonnes/year of naphtha as feedstock.
 

"The Rabigh II project is likely to be completed by 2016," according to a Saudi Arabia-based polymer source on the sidelines of the 9th Annual GPCA Forum in Dubai.

Petro Rabigh currently has a 1.3m tonne/year ethane cracker at the site.

The project’s main products will be ethylene propylene rubber (EPR), thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO), methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), low density polyethylene/ethylene vinyl acetate (LDPE/EVA), para-xylene/benzene, cumene and phenol/acetone.

Petro Rabigh is a joint venture between Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical and state-owned energy firm Saudi Aramco.

The 9th Annual GPCA forum runs on 23-25 November.