KEY MILESTONES AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE ARABIAN GULF’S LANDSCAPE

The Petrochemical Industry Journey in the Arabian Gulf 1960s -1980s 1980s - 2000s 2000s - to date

1980 1991 1998 2004 2007 2011

Abu Dhabi National Oil SAFRA, a private joint venture Borealis and ADNOC join in Yansab, an affliate of SABIC, is Borouge begins Company (ADNOC) of Total and several Saudi creating a major established in Yanbu construction of SABIC and ExxonMobil establishes a joint venture private firms, comes on line petrochemical operation in Borouge 2 announce plans to create a with Total to create a producing formaldehyde Abu Dhabi, which would Sahara , a major elastomers operation in 1975 fertilizer operation come to be known as private Saudi joint stock SABIC purchases Jubail 1963 (FERTIL) in Ruwais QAFCO embarks on a major Borouge company, is formed General Electric’s expansion plastics Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin IPIC of Abu Dhabi acquires Dr. Ghazi Al Gosaibi is Sheikh Tahnon Bin Petrochemical QAPCO Dow Chemical and PIC form Thunayan Al-Saud, Chairman of CEPSA of Spain appointed as Minister of Mohammed Al-Nahyan, SABIC (2nd from left); flanked by Industries Co. (PIC) is ADNOC board chairman, ethylene/polyethylene MEGlobal, producing and SABIC Innovative rd Industry and Electricity Steve Pryor (left) and Al-Mady (3 established in Kuwait signs the joint-venture plant begins operation TASNEE (National marketing ethylene glycol, with Plastics (IP) is from left), receives a memento in and Oman government forms the agreement for FERTIL with Jor 1993 Industrialization plants in Canada established from project partners ExxonMobil Oman Oil Refineries and given responsibility for Joueon of Total, 18 May and SABIC at an event held to Corporation), a private Industries Company creating a 1980. celebrate and announce the SVCG and Chevron Chemical Saudi joint-stock company Oman Methanol Company SABIC signs a JV finalization of the project. (Orpic), bringing Aromatics Dr. Ghazi Al Gosaibi petrochemical industry Co. sign a letter of intent to build announces its intent to (OMC), a private sector agreement with Sinopec Photo SABIC Oman, Oman Oil Refineries and a major aromatics facility in build the first Propylene/PP venture, is formed The sale of GE Plastics to build a petrochemical Petrochemicals Company, and Jubail complex based on Propane to SABIC in 2007. From complex in Tianjin OPP under one roof Dehydro Technology (PDH) left to right: Abdullah in Jubail Bazid, Mohamed Al - PIC and Union Carbide of the Mady and Jeff Immelt Royal Commision for 1982 United States sign a Jubail and Yanbu memorandum of understanding (RCJY) established Dow Chemical withdraws to form a major petrochemical from its SABIC joint operation named EQUATE, 2008 venture, PETROKEMYA, which would use Union 1964 which goes on to great Carbide’s Unipol technology Abu Dhabi National success, demonstrating 1999 Chemicals Company Kuwait Chemical Fertilizer SABIC's capacity to (ChemWEyaat) is formed Company (KCFC) is formed SABIC employees gain succeed on its own as a joint venture of as a joint venture of PIC, The Saudi International on-the-job training. Petrochemical Co. ADNOC, the Abu Dhabi Gulf Oil, and British Courtesy SABIC. Petroleum (Sipchem), a private Investment Council, and Saudi Aramco begins joint-stock company, is 2005 the International work on a Master Gas formed Petroleum Company System that will capture 1994 Construction begins of associated gases and NATPET, a private Saudi Oman India Fertilizer Co. Kuwait Chemical Fertilizer make them available for petrochemical operation Company operation in the (OMIFCO) is formed 1970s. industry and utilities Courtesy EQUATE. 1983 Qatar Fuel Additives Major petrochemical FERTIL begins operation 2012 sites and the Master Company (QAFAC) is 2009 1965 Gas System. of its urea/ammonia formed The Qatar Chemical and complex Sohar International Urea Petromin of Saudi Arabia Petrochemical Marketing Opening of SABIC's first R&D and Chemical Industries establishes the Saudi SABIC’s first and Distributing Company Center in (SIUCI) in Oman, a wholly Arabian Fertilizer Co. petrochemical joint privately owned company, (Muntajat) is formed to (SAFCO) ventures – AR RAZI and begins production handle all marketing of SAMAD – come on line Qatar’s chemical, polymer, and fertilizer products SABIC makes a move Abu Dhabi’s International downstream when it NATPET production facility. Petroleum Investment forms IBN HAYYAN with Courtesy NATPET. Company (IPIC) acquires 1976 Lucky Goldstar of Korea King Salman bin Abdulazi, then governor Nova Chemicals of Canada to produce VCM and PVC of Riyadh, cuts the A Royal Decree creates ribbon, officially opening 2000 the Saudi Basic Sabic affliate ALBAYRONI SABIC’s first R&D Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Industries Corporation Center (on right) in 1994. 2013 1969 Abdulaziz Al-Zamil, comes on line Saudi Chevron aromatics plant Chemical of Japan form a Saudi Aramco's JV with (SABIC) SABIC's first CEO, shows a is commissioned – the first joint venture – Rabigh Refining Sinopec and ExxonMobil in The Saudi Aramco/Total joint The government of Qatar, sample of polyethylene wholly privately owned major and Petrochemical Company Fuijan () comes on along with Norsk Hydro Work commences on resin produced by SABIC venture SATORP comes on aromatic complex in Jubail (PetroRabigh) line, producing a range of and the Hambros Bank, building the industrial Courtesy SABIC. stream in Jubail refined petrochemical form the Qatar Fertilizer city of Jubail in Saudi 1995 products Company (QAFCO) Arabia ORPIC’s Liwa Plastic The royal decree integrated complex is creating SABIC. Boubyan Petrochemicals Co., announced, the first ethylene Courtesy SABIC. Kuwait's first private chemical Saudi Aramco and Total sign cracker to be built in Oman 1985 company, is established a memorandum of understanding for the SABIC inaugurates the development of a refinery at GPIC commences SABIC Plastics Application Jubail that would include an 1973 production Development Center in aromatics complex. The joint Riyadh Techno Valley QAFCO starts operation of venture will become known as its N-fertilizer plant in Qatar GPIC’s production facility Saudi Phillips Saudi Aramco’s Total Refining by the sea. petrochemical operation and Petrochemical Company Courtesy GPIC in Jubail. (Satorp) 2010 Riyadh governor, Prince 1978 Courtesy Chevron Phillips Khaled bin Bandar, in 2013 Chemicals Company LLC. More SABIC ventures come Kuwait Aromatics opens SABIC’s Plastics Work commences on Application Center on stream Then Saudi Aramco building a second 1996 President and CEO Company (KARO), the first - KEMYA (JV with Exxon) industrial city in Yanbu Abdullah Jum’ah and aromatics company in Hiromasa Yonekura, Saudi Arabia - YANPET (JV with NAMA, a private Saudi company, Kuwait, is commissioned 2014 Mobil) begins production of chlor-alkali President of Sumitomo Chemical sign the joint SABIC and western - PETROKEMYA in Jubail venture agreement SABIC becomes the largest partners form the first of - SADAF (JV with Shell) 2001 establishing PetroRabigh. patent developer in the Middle many joint The young SABIC - SHARQ (JV with executive team in the early East by surpassing the 10,000 The first phase of Borouge’s 1974 petrochemical ventures 1990s. From left to right: Mitsubishi & Japanese patent mark Moayyed Al-Qurtas, Saad Consortium) olefins complex is completed 2006 The Government of Qatar Bin Salamah, Mohamed and production commences in joins with CdF Chemie and Al-Mady, Ibrahim Bin Ruwais based on Borealis’ Salamah, Ghazi Al-Hajjar, Establishment of the Gulf Gazocean of France to unique Borstar® bimodal Abdulrahman Al-Ankari, Petrochemicals and create QAPCO First shipments of technology Abdullah Al-Nojaidi, and 1997 Chemicals Association Nasser Al-Sayari. polyethylene leaving Courtesy SABIC. 1988 Borouge’s Abu Dhabi (GPCA) 2011 Qatar Vinyl Co. (QVC) is plant to customers in the created as a joint venture of and Asia. SABIC’s first home SABIC purchases Saudi Aramco and Dow 2015 Opening of SABIC's QAPCO and Elf Atochem in Riyadh. Huntsman Corporation’s Chemical approve the Technical Services Lab Courtesy SABIC. petrochemical operations in formation of a joint venture Saudi Aramco acquires 50% (TSL) that would develop 2002 (Sadara Chemical the United Kingdom stake in the synthetic rubber into SABIC's first R&D Company) to build and business of LANXESS center State Mines (DSM) Aromatic Oman, an affiliate operate a world-scale, fully petrochemical operations in of Oman Oil, begins to build integrated chemicals the Netherlands. its plant at Sohar complex in Jubail. Comprising 26 manufacturing units, it will th Advanced Petrochemicals is Oman Oil Co. forms Salalah GPCA celebrates the 10 constitute one of the largest 1979 founded as a Saudi private Methanol Co. and begins its edition of its Annual Forum and integrated chemical facilities 1989 Qatar Petroleum joins with joint-stock company plant in Sohar launches its new brand identity in the world and the largest The governments of Chevron Chemical Co. to Gulf Farabi, a private Saudi ever built in one phase. The Bahrain, Kuwait, and The Saudi Formaldehyde establish the Qatar The foundation stone for petrochemical company, is complex will include a QAPCO’s first plant under Saudi Arabia form the Company (today known as Chemical Co. (Q-Chem) SABIC’s affiliate Saudi formed downstream industrial park construction in 1978. Gulf Petrochemical Chemanol) is the first Kayan petrochemical Khalid Al-Falih (front left) and Courtesy QAPCO. Andrew Liveris of Dow Industries Company private Saudi complex, one of the largest Oman Propylene Company Chemical (front right) sign The journey (GPIC) in Bahrain petrochemical company in the world, was laid in the agreement forming (OPP) is formed formed Jubail Sadara. Back row, from left continues... to right: Prince Faisal bin Turki Al-Saud, Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Ibrahim Al-Assaf, and Prince Saud Al-Thunayan. Courtesy Saudi Aramco.

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