Saudi Arabia’s Dammam 7 Petrochemical has doubled the budget and scope of its planned acrylic acid and acrylates complex at Jubail, Meed has reported. The move will increase the budget of the facility towards the $1bn mark and make the complex one of the largest of its type in the world. The capacity of the planned plant is now 200,000 tonnes-a-year (t/y) of butanol and 400,000-t/y of acrylic acid.