01 April 2016

PetroRabigh has received bids from up to six foreign engineering companies for the construction of new units at its petrochemical and refining complex.

Tenders involve building a polyether polyols plant with annual capacity of 220,000 tonnes, a 17,000-barrel-per-day naphtha-treating unit to produce clean fuel, and a sulphur recovery unit (SRU) with a capacity of 106,000 tonnes a year.

Those in the race include South Korea’s Daelim Industrial, Spanish specialists Intecsa and Tecnicas Reunidas, Taiwan’s CTCI Corporation besides India’s Larsen and Toubro. Work on the Rabigh expansion is due to begin in the second half of this year.

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