Petro Rabigh Seeks Validity Date Extension In Engineering Bids for Rabigh Expansion

摘要

Rabish— Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. (Petro Rabigh) has asked engineering companies to extend until the end of this month the validity dates on bids submitted for the second phase expansion of the Rabigh petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia (PCN, 13 June 2011, p 2). Petro Rabigh, a joint venture owned 37.5% each by Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical and 25% by Saudi public investors, currently has the capacity to produce 1.3-million t/y of ethylene and 900,000 t/y of propylene, as well as downstream production of polyethylene, polypropylene, propylene oxide, ethylene glycol and butene-1.