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30 August 2010

SABIC Venturing into Oleochemicals with Lurgi

Saudi's SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corp) has announced that it will partner with German's Lurgi for technology provider in oleochemicals. The said arrangement is set to tapped into Lurgi's technology that will utilize renewable feedstocks with planned oleochemicals plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

The renewable feedstock is targeted to produce 83,000 tonnes/year of distilled natural alcohols by 2013. It is likely that the plant will be a trial set-up utilizng Lurgi's new technology.

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