Linde to supply Aramco/Dow petchem complex

London – Linde is to supply Sadara Chemical Co.with CO, H2 and ammonia at a chemical complex now being built by Sadara in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, which will be the world’s largest chemical complex ever built in a single phase.

The on-site gases supply contract includes a HyCO facility for the production of CO and H2 plus an ammonia plant. Linde will be investing $380 million in the project. Sadara is a JV developed by Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical Co.

Linde’s engineering division will design, deliver and construct the new turnkey gases facilities at Sadara’s site in the Jubail 2 petrochemical cluster. The company will be building a two-stream HyCO plant, plus a single-stream NH3 unit producing waterless liquid ammonia.

Linde will also install a large NH3 storage tank, resulting in a sophisticated supply concept which, it said, will enable the plant to run smoothly and reliably at all times.

The production units are scheduled to be ready in 2015. Once built, they will be operated by Linde’s Gases Division.

Linde is setting up a local gases company for on-site support.Sadara will use carbon monoxide, hydrogen and ammonia primarily for the production of aromatics, isocyanates (MDI and TDI), amines and hydrogen peroxide.

Sadara will construct, own and operate a world-scale integrated chemicals complex in Jubail Industrial City II in Saudi Arabia. Sadara will have a differentiated product mix, most of which are produced locally for the first time, and expects further growth opportunities for conversion and downstream industries in the adjacent PlasChem Park.