Aramco inks agreement with a foreign investor for production of PTA and PET

15-May-17

Aramco announced the signing of an agreement with a foreign investor, which includes land allocation land in Jazan Economic City, for the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), as per english.alarabiya.net. The company said that the completion percentage the project of Jazan Economic City reached about 53% for the whole project and all its various facilities, industrial and services, stressing that the work is going on well and fast.
The city’s economic projects in Jazan include the Aramco refinery project, which will be the center of the city, it is considered to be one of the largest refinery projects in the world in the past 20 years, with its size, advanced technology, production capacity and integration to maximize value. The refinery is designed to process more than 400,000 bpd of heavy and medium thickness Arab oil, to provide values for manufacturing industries and fulfill the needs of refined petroleum products for the region. In addition to the power generation center, which includes the first laboratory in KSA to convert heavy petroleum liquids into clean purified gas and then produce electricity using high efficiency composite cycle technology with a capacity of 3900 MW. This center will produce more than 2,400 megawatts of electricity for the national electricity network. Clean energy will be available in an economical, high quality and reliable method.