Project Profile
Value: $1,000 Million
Startup Year: 2014
The new petrochemicals complex comprises four licensed technology process units plus associated utilities, offsites and common facilities. The four main elements include a 60,000-tonne-a-year PBT plant, 50,000 t/y of butanediol and 85,000 t/y of maleic anhydride units to feed the PBT facility, and the complex\'s offsites and utilities and 3,500 t/y of tetrahydrofuran. Butane feedstock for the butanediol unit will be supplied by Saudi Aramco. Polybutylene terephthalate is a plastic used as an insulator in the electrical and electronics industries.