Aramco and Sumitomo Inaugurate Petro Rabigh; Investment Decision on Phase II by End of 2010

Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical held an official inauguration ceremony yesterday for their $10.3 billion Petro Rabigh petrochemical joint ventrue at Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. The ceremony was attended by Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources; Khalid A. Al-Falih, CEO of Saudi Aramco; chairman of Sumitomo Chemical, Hiromasa Yonekura; and Ziad Al-Labban, CEO of Petro Rabigh. The complex comprises units producing 1.3 million m.t./year of ethylene, 900,000 m.t./year of propylene, as well as 60,000 bbl/day of gasoline and other...

This information is only available to Chemical Week subscribers.

Forgot your user ID or password?
Click here to have it sent to you.

Email Address First Name Last Name

Not an IHS Chemical Week 24/7 member yet? Here's why you should be: Searchable online archive access of the last 2 years of Chemical Week. Print or digital magazine subscription Price and market change alerts Economic data and statistics Buyers' Guides Webcasts | whitepapers