Producer
SABIC
Saudi Arabian petrochemical giant (~10.9M tons/yr polyethylene capacity). Owned 70% by Saudi Aramco since 2020. Major HDPE, LLDPE producer via world-scale plants in Saudi Arabia, Europe, and China JVs.
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Goods downstream
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Facilities
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Stories
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Where they make it
2 facilities
Kemya (SABIC/ExxonMobil JV) →
SAJubail Industrial City · manufacturing
SABIC/ExxonMobil 50-50 JV. 700 kTA/yr LDPE/LLDPE. Est. 1984. World-scale gas-based cracker.
Yanpet (SABIC/ExxonMobil JV) →
SAYanbu Industrial City · manufacturing
SABIC/ExxonMobil JV in Yanbu. Produces HDPE and LLDPE. Low-cost ethane feedstock from Saudi Aramco.
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Petrochemicals
55%Agri-Nutrients (SAFCO)
15%Metals (Hadeed)
10%Specialties & Performance
15%Other Chemicals
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Did you know2020
SABIC, the world's 2nd-largest PE producer, is 70% owned by Saudi Aramco — the company that pumps more oil than any nation except Russia and the US. When you buy HDPE irrigation pipe made with SABIC resin, you are indirectly purchasing petrochemical capacity underwritten by sovereign Saudi oil wealth. SABIC's cost of ethane feedstock is set by the Saudi government, not market price.
SABIC ↗Origin2023
SABIC was founded in 1976 by the Saudi Arabian government as a deliberate industrial policy to capture value-added downstream processing from the kingdom's natural gas feedstocks, rather than simply exporting raw hydrocarbons. The government recognized that ethane from Saudi oil fields was being flared or reinjected due to lack of domestic processing capacity -- wasted value. SABIC was created to build world-scale petrochemical plants in Jubail Industrial City that would convert this cheap ethane into plastics and chemicals worth multiples more than the gas itself. The strategy succeeded: SABIC became one of the world's largest petrochemical companies by the 1990s-2000s, using subsidized Saudi feedstock costs to compete against Western chemical companies on price globally. Saudi Aramco acquired a 70% controlling stake in SABIC in 2020 for $69.1B, completing the vertical integration of Saudi energy production through chemicals and into consumer plastics.
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