Project Management & Development Co. to build Saudi petrochemical complex
Saudi Arabia's Project Management & Development Co. Ltd. (PMD), Al-Jubail Industrial City, plans to construct a $3.5 billion petrochemical complex at Al-Jubai. The primary facility will be an ethane-butane cracker to produce 1.35m tonnes/year of ethylene, along with propylene and benzene feedstocks for downstream petrochemical units within the PMD cracker complex. The plant is planned for start-up in 2008.