科威特向海外石油化工项目投资80亿美元

Kuwait to invest $8 bn in overseas petrochem projects

Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC), a subsidiary of the state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, is planning to invest more than $8 billion in several overseas petrochemical projects over the next five years, according to Kuwaiti media reports. The projects include both setting up of new plants and expansion of existing ones jointly owned by PIC.

PIC would invest in a 1400 tonnes per year paraxylene (PX) plant in Bahrain, which would be jointly owned by PIC and the government-owned National Oil and Gas Authority of Bahrain, the reports said quoting PIC CEO Mohammed Al-Farhoud.

PlC’s investment plans include construction of a 550,000 tonnes per year propylene and polypropylene plant in Canada. This will be built as a joint venture with a local Canadian company. PIC is also considering setting up of a 400,000 tonnes per year polypropylene plant in South Korea.

Investment is also being made by the PIC in a 750,000 tonnes per year ethylene glycol plant in the US. For this plant, a contract was signed with Jacobs Engineering Group in October last year. The project is scheduled to be completed in October 2019.

In addition to these, PIC is actively considering investment opportunities in other countries, Al-Farhoud said. (RKS)

译文如下：

科威特向海外石油化工项目投资80亿美元

据科威特媒体报道，科威特石化工业有限公司（PIC）计划未来五年内在科威特、巴林、加拿大、美国和韩国投资超过80亿美元建设多个合资石化项目。这些项目既包括新工厂的建设，也包括由科威特石化工业有限公司共同拥有的现有工厂的扩建。

科威特石化工业有限公司首席执行官Mohammed al-Farhoud日前对媒体表示，该公司将投资位于巴林Sitra的合资芳烃综合厂，将生产140万吨/年的对二甲苯（PX）。该工厂将由PIC和巴林政府所有的国家石油和天然气管理局共同拥有。

PIC计划在加拿大建设此前宣布的丙烯和聚丙烯（PP）综合体，包括年产能55万吨/年的PP厂。该综合体将由科威特石化（加拿大）公司在阿尔伯塔省建设，科威特石化（加拿大）公司为PIC和Pembina管道公司对等合资公司。同时还考虑在韩国蔚山建设一个40万吨/年聚丙烯工厂。

另一个项目是在美国建设一个产能75万吨/年的乙二醇（EG）厂，该项目将由雅各布工程公司建设，计划2019年10月完成。

Al-Farhoud说，除了这些，PIC还在积极考虑其他国家的投资机会。

(编译：杨朝霞)