Aramco and its unit Sabic is not going to go forward with the deliberate 400,000 barrel-a-day facility at Ras Al Khair on Saudi Arabia’s Gulf coast, and a proposal to maneuver the undertaking to Jubail has additionally been shelved, in line with individuals with information of the state of affairs.
The cancellation is an indication Aramco is recalibrating its spending on chemical substances to Asia, the place it’s pursuing a sequence of offers in China that may additionally assure long-term demand for Saudi crude.