SABIC picks Germany’s Linde to build CO2 plant

Saudi Basic Industries Crop’s (SABIC) subsidiary has contracted Germany’s Linde Group to build the world’s largest plant for capturing and using carbon dioxide in Jubail Industrial City as part of the company’s push to reduce carbon emissions, the Middle East’s largest petrochemicals firm said in a statement.

The plant of the United Jubail Petrochemical Company (UNITED), which is 75 percent-owned by SABIC, will have a capacity to capture 1,500 tons a day of carbon dioxide from ethylene glycol factories purify and reuse it for SABIC-owned urea and enhanced methanol plants in Jubail.

The new plant will prevent about 500,000 tons a year of CO2 emissions, the gas blamed for global warming. It will also supply 200 tons a day of liquid CO2 to the food and drinks industry, SABIC added.