Japanese plant engineering firm JGC Corp. has received a US$$860 million order to build the core facilities of a large oil refinery and petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia from a JV between Sumitomo Chemical Co. and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. As per the deal, JGC will design and build a fluid catalytic cracking unit, used to refine heavy oil to produce gasoline and propylene, and an ethane cracker plant, for producing ethylene from natural gas. Annual output capacity will reach 900,000 tons for propylene and 1.3 million tons for ethylene
07-Mar-06 
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