Saudi Petrochemical Company of Petro Rabigh, one of the largest in the Gulf, stopped two plants for the production of high-pressure linear polyethylene (LDL) for scheduled maintenance, ICIS said a source familiar with the matter.

Enterprises with a total capacity of 600 thous. Tons of LDL per year will be closed for at least one week. Details of repair work were reported.

As reported by the MRC, a few days earlier Petro Rabigh expansion project has completed the mechanical stage ethane cracker at its production complex in Rabigh. The expansion of the plant’s capacity was increased from 1.3 million to 1.6 million tons of ethylene per year. Now cracker productivity increased by an additional 5.34 million barrels per day, reaching 22.26 million barrels per day.

Production complex in Rabigh includes a plant for the production of high density polyethylene (HDPE) capacity of 300 ths. Tons, enterprises for the production of linear polyethylene (LDL) with a capacity of 600 ths. Tons and the production monoetilengklikolya plant (MEG) with a capacity of 600 th. Tons per year, and polypropylene production capacity of 700 th. tons per year.

As reported earlier MRC, Petro Rabigh carried out scheduled maintenance at the plant for the production of polypropylene (PP) from the beginning of October 2015 for January 2016.

Petro Rabigh, owned 50% Chemical division of the Japanese giant Sumitomo Chemical and 50% of the state Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia) is one of the largest and fastest-growing companies of the Gulf region. Founded in September 2005, Petro Rabigh is an ode to the world’s largest petrochemical companies. The industrial complex is located Petro Rabigh on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia in the city of Rabigh. Suppliers of raw material (crude oil) for the project is Saudi Aramco, and the complex capacity is 20 million tons of oil and polymer raw materials per year.