Saudi Arabia’s PetroRabigh will start the bidding process to build new units, including one to produce clean fuel, at its petrochemical and refining complex in Rabigh
The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) tenders will be launched for the polyether polyols plant with a capacity of 220,000 tonnes per year, a 17,000 barrels per day naphtha treating unit to produce clean fuel and a 106,000 tonnes per year sulphur recovery unit (SRU), it said in a statement.
If the bids are approved, work is expected to start in the second half of 2016, the company, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical, said. However, it did not give a value for the project.
In June this year, industry sources told Reuters that PetroRabigh planned to build the units with contracts likely to be awarded in Q1 2016. Meanwhile, the firm will shut its refining and petrochemical complex at Rabigh on the Red Sea coast on 11 October for 50-day, it added.
