Project Profile
Value: US$3.4 billion
Location: Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Completion: December 2015
Capacity: 700,000 tonnes per year of ethylene, 1.1 m.t. of polyethylene
KEMYA is located in Al-Jubail, 70 kilometres north of Dammam on the east coast of the Kingdom. The site has the capacity to produce about 700,000 tonnes per year of ethylene, and over 1.1 m.t. of polyethylene and serves the domestic, regional and global markets. The project also includes the construction of the High Institute for Elastomer Industries in Yanbu, product application development and support center in Riyadh, a facility for the production of polyolefin thermoplastics compounds, and a local inventory management center in Jubail Industrial City. Kemya Complex is expected to establish a supply of more than 400,000 metric tons of rubber (butyl, styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), butadiene rubber and EPDM), thermoplastic specialty polymers, and carbon black. The Kemya project is worth US$3.4 billion.
Operator:
Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company (KEMYA) – joint venture consisting of:
SABIC
ExxonMobil
Contractors:
Fluor
Jacobs Engineering
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding