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• n  any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas

• The country's petrochemical future contains several other question marks.
• No shots were fired, but the Saudis found the sub near the Saudi city of Jubail, a coastal industrial center that is the site of major Saudi petrochemical and oil installations, as .
• Only a few years ago, thousands of Veracruzanos worked as cane cutters, coffee pickers and laborers in a state-owned petrochemical complex.

News & Articles

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• Saudi Aramco-Dow JV raises funding for $19 billion project - sources
  DUBAI (Reuters) - Sadara Chemical Co, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical , has signed a fundraising package for the $19.3 billion (12.2 billion pounds) petrochemical complex it is building ...
  June 16, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
• Global Petrochemical Prices Drop 2% in May on Weaker Olefins Prices
  LONDON, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Prices in the $3-trillion-plus global petrochemicals market fell 2% to $1,278 per metric ton (/mt) in May on the back of weaker raw inputs prices, according to the monthly Platts Global Petrochemical Index (PGPI). The PGPI is a benchmark basket of...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire
• ChemChina Petrochemical Announces Changyi Petrochemical Is A Model In Safe Production
  At a recent Changyi government safety production meeting, Shandong Changyi Petrochemical Co was singled out as a model enterprise for safety production, for 2012. The company followed safe production and accident prevention principles and the safe production responsibility system, and did monthly safety inspections and organized safety training programs, with more than 95 percent of its ...
  June 10, 2013 - ChemicalOnline

Quotes

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• Michael Wilson in 29-95.com
  It's the material basis of our society essentially,said Michael Wilson, a research scientist at the University of California Berkeley. "This is the Petrochemical Age."
• Pranab Mukherjee in Sify
  I requested that the relationship be transformed from buyer-seller level...... We want to participate in exploration, exploitation and development of gas-based and petrochemical-based industry in Saudi Arabia,Mukherjee told reporters after...
• Dhirubhai Ambani in Hindu Business Line
  In the next five years, the total investment in all the new polyester and petrochemical manufacturing facilities will be the largest in this sector to be made anywhere in the world at any given point of time,he said.