Petro Rabigh’s project units to start up by 2016-end

Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. (Petro Rabigh) expects the new derivative units of its Rabigh Phase II expansion project to start production by the end of 2016, ICIS reported, citing an unnamed source close to the company. 

The project will use 30 million standard cubic feet per day of ethane and 3 million metric tons per year of naphtha as feedstock in a new aromatics complex.

It will also diversify the chemicals made at the complex by adding ethylene propylene rubber and thermoplastic polyolefin to its portfolio, among other products.

Petro Rabigh is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical.