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Kemya Jubail
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Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company

Sabic gets set to spread its wings, 26th Apr 1996:
Kemya is proposing a plant which will produce 600,000 t/y of ethylene and 100,000 t/y of polypropylene.

ABB Speeds Kemya Ethylene Plant Startup, 22nd Mar 2001:
ABB announced today that the Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company (Kemya) ethylene plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia is producing on-spec product with world class performance, achieved in an overall project schedule of 33.5 months from start of basic design to production. The 700,000 metric ton per annum ethane/propane cracker incorporates SRT® cracking heater technology from ABB Lummus Global combined with the Ethylene 2000SM recovery process technology, also from ABB. The combination of feed flexibility, operating efficiency and favorable project capital cost makes the Kemya olefins plant a worldwide benchmark gas cracker.

Petrochemical Units Project Award in Saudi Arabia, 12th Jul 2004:
Technip recently has been awarded by Al-Jubail Petrochemical Co. (KEMYA), a 50:50 joint venture between SABIC & ExxonMobil Chemical, a contract for an additional cracking furnace in its ethylene plant located in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia. This new furnace will allow KEMYA to increase its ethylene and propylene production by 110,000 tons per year.

About Kemya Linkedin page, accessed 6th Jun 2024:
Today, the site has the capacity to produce approximately 960,000 tons per year of ethylene and propylene, as well as over 1.3 million tons per year of low-density and linear low-density polyethylene.

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Processing
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Technology

Technology
Lummus SRT Steam Cracking
Licensor
Lummus Technology LLC
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Asset Level
UoM
Barrels
Startup Date
03/2001
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UserPic  Kokel, Nicolas
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