Published on May 9, 2017
Malaysian state-owned oil company Petronas and its partner Saudi Aramco are in plan to construct more petrochemical plants in Malaysia to make full use of raw materials from their joint venture. Aramco signed a deal in late February to take a US$7 billion investment in the RAPID (Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development) joint venture with Petronas in Pengerang, southern Malaysia. There will be specialty chemicals using the C4s technology referring to petrochemicals produced from naphtha crackers. The cracker could produce about 600,000 tonnes of butadiene, as per source.
