Sadara JV 94% complete; production set for H2-2015

Sadara Chemical Co., a joint venture between Dow Chemical and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco), is now 94 percent complete and should start production near end of 2015, Dow said in a statement.

Work on the complex was said to be on-time and on-budget as full operation remains on track for the end of 2016.

Sadara’s 26 manufacturing plants are scheduled for a sequenced start-up process, beginning with polyolefins to “maximize timing in the ethylene cycle,” the statement added. This would be followed by production of ethylene oxide/propylene oxide and polyurethanes in the final phase.

Sadara is being constructed in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Industrial City and will become the world’s largest chemical complex built in a single phase. The mega facility will produce more than three million tons of products every year.