MOSCOW (MRC) -- Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh) has announced that it has submitted a capital reduction application file and a capital increase application file to the Saudi Capital Market Authority, according to TNG News.
The company said in a statement on “Tadawul Saudi Arabia”, Monday, that it obtained the approval of the lenders regarding the capital reduction and capital increase in accordance with the requirements of the relevant financing agreements.
She explained that the capital reduction and increase are subject to the relevant regulatory approvals, including the approval of the company’s extraordinary general assembly, noting that it will announce any material developments in a timely manner in accordance with the relevant regulations.
On December 7, 2021, the company submitted an amendment to the Board of Directors’ recommendation to increase the company’s capital through a rights issue, to be a recommendation to reduce the capital by an amount of 1.205 billion riyals, and then increase it by offering rights shares with a total value of 7.95 billion riyals.
The amendment includes the board of directors’ recommendation regarding the capital structure, after the board of directors studies the company’s financial position and takes into account the accumulated losses of 13.76% of the company’s capital.
The company said in a previous statement, that the recommendation included reducing the capital by 13.76%, to become after the reduction about 7.55 billion riyals, instead of 8.76 billion riyals.
The method of reduction is through canceling about 120.5 million ordinary shares, by canceling one ordinary share for every 7.3 ordinary shares, bringing the number of shares after the reduction to 755.49 million shares.
The reduction will contribute to amortizing the company’s accumulated losses, and the company does not expect the capital reduction to have a material negative impact on the company’s financial, operational or regulatory obligations, operations or performance.
As MRC wrote previously, the company conducted a 55-day scheduled turnaround at its polypropylene (PP) units in Rabigh since end-February 2020. And in June 2021, Petro Rabigh said it had no overhaul schedule for its PP plant. The company operates two lines at this plant, which can produce 350,000 mt/year of PP each.
Besides, the company has a 300,000 mt/year high density polyethylene (HDPE) unit, a 160,000 mt/year low density polyethylene (LDPE) unit and a 600,000 mt/year linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant at the same site.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, PP shipments to the Russian market were 1,363,850 tonnes in January-November, 2021, up by 25% year on year. Supply of homopolymer PP and block-copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymers) increased, whereas supply of injection moulding PP random copolymers decreased significantly.
PetroRabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Japan's Sumitomo Chemical, has an annual output capacity of 18 million tonnes of refined products and 2.4 million tonnes of petrochemicals. Thus, the complex currently has a cracker to produce 1.6-million t/y of ethylene, as well as downstream production of polyethylene, polypropylene, propylene oxide, ethylene glycol and butene-1.
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