Kuwaiti firm to spend $5bn on olefins plant
Petrochemical Industries Co, a unit of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp, has said it plans to build a third olefins plant that may cost as much as $5bn, Bloomberg has reported. Plans for the plant are expected to be completed this year, PIC said. The facility may have a production capacity of more than 1 million metric tonnes a year of ethylene and should be operational in 2015.




