Yokogawa Saudi Arabia has been selected as the process control system supplier for the Rabigh II project, in which Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical are investors said a company statement. Yokogawa will supply its products, the CENTUM VP production control system and the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system for the petrochemical complex.
With phases I and II combined, this is the largest project for Yokogawa in the Middle East.
The Rabigh II Project, by expanding the ethane cracker and building a new aromatics complex, will use additional 30 million standard cuft per day of ethane and approximately 3 million tpy of naphtha as feedstock to produce a variety of petrochemical products.
Each plant will be brought on stream as it becomes available for operation, beginning the first half of 2016.
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