Saudi Arabia's Petro Rabigh plans to start selling more polymers grades and other petrochemicals produced at its phase 2 complex from early 2019.
The products are expected to be ready for the market once the reliability tests are completed. However, it is not clear which polymer grades the petrochemical company will start to sell in 2019.
Petro Rabigh started the phase 2 complex in 2017, that has an integrated 400,000 b/d refinery that produces aromatics, including 1.34 million mt/year of paraxylene and 424,000 mt/year of benzene besides several other downstream products. The facility will use 3 million mt/year of naphtha as feedstock. The phase 2 complex also has units that produce ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM), ethylene vinyl acetate (LDPE/EVA), superabsorbent polymer (SAP), caprolactam, nylon-6 and polyols as well as TPO, cumene, phenol, acetone and MMA.
In addition Petro Rabigh’s phase 1 complex produces 300,000 mt/year of high density polyethylene, 600,000 mt/year of linear low density polyethylene, 600,000 mt/year of polypropylene, 700,000 mt/year of monoethylene glycol and 200,000 mt/year of propylene oxide.
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