Tasnee Ethylene plant produces On-Spec C2 ahead of schedule
Pullach, the 09/03/2008 - The Linde Engineering Division today announced that on-spec ethylene production of the Tasnee ethylene plant in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, was achieved on August 23, 2008 following mechanical completion on July 15, 2008, which is six weeks ahead of schedule.
The plant which was built for Saudi Ethylene and Polyethylene Company (SEPC) by the consortium Linde Engineering and Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd., with the company Fluor as Project Managing Contractor (PMC), has a capacity of 1 MM MTA (million metric tons annually).
This remarkable success was achieved due to outstanding execution by Linde and Samsung in a difficult environment with a shortage of qualified manpower and tight markets for material and equipment supply. The cracker of SEPC, a joint venture of Tasnee, Sahara and Basell, is the first cracker to come on stream several months ahead of other cracker projects in Saudi Arabia which were also awarded in 2005. With this success Linde and Samsung clearly demonstrate their leading position in technology and project execution of in the Middle East.
