石油设备网讯 据路透社6月3日班加罗尔报道，亿万富翁吉姆•拉特克利夫旗下的英力士周一表示，将投资20亿美元兴建三座工厂，作为沙特国有的沙特阿美和法国道达尔正在沙特开发的石化综合设施的一部分。
英力士表示，其工厂将是耗资50亿美元的Amiral项目的一部分，该项目旨在供应逾40亿美元的衍生品和特种化学品。
英力士董事长拉特克利夫在一份声明中表示:“我们正在引进先进的下游技术，这将为沙特增加价值，并创造更多就业机会。”
这家能源和化工公司表示，这些工厂将获得有竞争力的原材料和能源，以及为该地区和亚洲客户服务的基础设施。
英力士是丙烯腈的最大生产商之一。丙烯腈是一种有毒液体，用于制造人造纤维和其他聚合物。该公司表示，这三家工厂中的一家将是丙烯腈工厂。
英力士首席执行官保罗•奥门特表示，对丙烯腈的需求正超过经济增长。
英力士表示，今年将在比利时投资30亿欧元(合33.5亿美元)，建造一个乙烷裂解装置，用于生产塑料和合成产品所需的化学品，以及一个丙烷脱氢装置。这是该公司迄今为止最大的一笔投资。
薛珂 编译自 路透社
原文如下：
Britain's INEOS to invest $2bln in Saudi petrochemical complex
Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS said on Monday it would invest $2 billion to build three plants that would form part of petrochemical complex being developed in Saudi Arabia by state-owned Saudi Aramco and France's Total.
INEOS' plants would be part of a $5 billion complex called Project Amiral that aimed to supply more than $4 billion of derivatives and speciality chemicals, the company said.
"We are bringing advanced downstream technology which will add value and create further jobs in the kingdom," Ratcliffe, INEOS' chairman, said in a statement to announce the deal with Aramco and Total.
The energy and chemicals firm said the plants would have access to competitive raw materials and energy, as well as infrastructure to serve customers in the region and Asia.
INEOS is one of the largest producers of acrylonitrile, a toxic liquid used to make artificial fibres and other polymers. One of the three plants would be a acrylonitrile plant, the company said.
Paul Overment, chief executive of INEOS Nitriles, said demand for acrylonitrile was outpacing economic growth.
INEOS said this year it was investing 3 billion euros ($3.35 billion) in Belgium to build an ethane gas cracker to produce the chemicals needed for plastics and synthetic products and a propane dehydrogenation unit. That investment was the firm's biggest to date.
