MOSCOW (MRC) -- Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company is in plans to shut its monoethylene glycol plant for maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Saudi Arabia informed that the plant is planned to be shut in end-March 2016. It is likely to remain off-stream for two months.
Located in Jubai, Saudi Arabia, the plant has a production capacity of 566,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, Saudi Arabia’s Oil Ministry allocated an additional 10m cbf/d (2.8m cbm) of ethane to Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Co (Al Jubail / Saudi Arabia) to enable an expansion of capacity at its Al Jubail complex. The company plans to widen its ethylene production by at least 93,000 t/y and its ethylene oxide capacity by 61,000 t/y from the second quarter of 2017.
Manufacturing a wide range of petrochemicals, the Riyadh-based company’s products include ethylene, propylene and derivatives. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) formed Saudi Kayan Petrochemicals Company in 2007 to produce chemicals for export at the Jubail Industrial City on the Kingdom’s east coast. SABIC owns 35% of the company. A private shareholder, Al Kayan Petrochemical Company, holds a further 20%. The remaining 45% is held by Saudi shareholders following an initial public offering last year.
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