Petrokemya, a wholly owned Sabic subsidiary, is studying plans to add 800,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of ethylene capacity at Al Jubail.

The company has commissioned four separate studies to expand capacity at two of its three ethylene plants.
The three units have a combined capacity of 2.6 million tpy.
Petrokemya has appointed ABB Lummus Global and Stone & Webster (S&W) to separately study a project to expand by 400,000 tpy Petrokemya’s No 3 cracker.
That plant, completed at the end of 2000, is a flexible-feed cracker with capacity for 800,000 tpy of ethylene, 160,000 tpy of propylene, and 25,000 tpy of benzene. S&W built the recovery section of the cracker and Technip supplied the furnaces.
Meanwhile, Petrokemya has appointed S&W and Technip to carry out separate studies to add 400,000 tpy of capacity to Petrokemya’s No 1 cracker, originally built by CF Braun, the company said.