Saudi Polymers to restart Jubail plant next week after three-week shutdown

Saudi Arabia's National Petrochemical, or Petrochem, announced Monday that its affiliate Saudi Polymers has completed maintenance work at its polymers plant in Jubail and will restart all units there early next week.

The units were shut June 30 because of a technical problem.

Petrochem's polymers plant at Jubail has a 1.16 million mt/year ethylene unit, a 1.1 million mt/year polyethylene unit, a 430,000 mt/year propylene unit, a 400,000 mt/year of polypropylene unit, a 200,000 mt/year polystyrene unit and a 100,000 mt/year 1-hexene unit.

The plant had begun commercial operations at the end of September 2012.

Saudi Polymers Company is a joint venture between Petrochem (65%) and Arabian Chevron Phillips Petrochemical Company (35%).