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Saudi Butanol starts trial ops at Jubail

RIYADH, October 20, 2015

Saudi Butanol Company, a joint venture of local petrochemicals firms, has begun trials of its plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, and expects commercial operations to start in the first half of 2016.

Testing will take between three and six months at the plant, a statement from Sahara Petrochemical Company said on Tuesday.

The project is owned by group consisting of Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company, Sadara Chemical Company (a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and The Dow Chemical) and Saudi Acrylic Acid Company (SAAC).

SAAC is an affiliate of Tasnee and Sahara.

A statement issued in March had said testing was expected to commence in the third quarter of 2015.

The project, estimated to cost around SR2 billion ($534 million), was expected to come on stream in the first quarter of 2015 when it was first announced in 2012.

The plant will have a capacity of 330,000 tonnes a year of n-butanol, a type of alcohol used to make other chemicals, and 11,000 tonnes a year of iso-butanol. - Reuters




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