By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 5 -- Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic) affiliate Eastern Petrochemical Co. (Sharq) has let three contracts for the Sharq III expansion of its petrochemical complex in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia (OGJ Online, Feb. 24, 2005).
Stone & Webster received a contract to engineer, supply, and build a 1.3 million tonne/year ethylene plant. Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., UK, will build the utilities and offsite facilities. And Linde-KCA-Dresden GMBH will engineer, supply, and build the 400,000 tonne/year linear low density and 400,000 tonne/year high density polyethylene plants.
The project also will expand ethylene glycol capacity by 700,000 tonnes/year and push total output of all products by the complex to more than 5 million tonnes/year.
Sharq is a 50-50 joint venture of Sabic and SPDC Ltd, a Japanese consortium led by the government of Japan and the Mitsubishi group of companies.
