Up to Six Bidders Vie for PetroRabigh Construction Contract -Sources

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, Mar 1 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's PetroRabigh has received bids from up to six foreign engineering companies for the construction of new units at its petrochemical and refining complex in Rabigh, industry sources said.

PetroRabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Japan's Sumitomo Chemical, announced plans for the new units in October last year. It said tenders would involve building a polyether polyols plant with annual capacity of 220,000 tonnes, a 17,000 barrel per day naphtha-treating unit to produce clean fuel and a sulphur recovery unit (SRU) with capacity of 106,000 tonnes a year.

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