At the Huajin Aramco fine chemicals and feedstock project — a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Chinese partners — a 736,000-ton-per-year ethylbenzene unit and a 700,000-ton-per-year styrene unit reportedly held a mechanical completion ceremony on July 2 and entered pre-commissioning.

The Sino-Saudi Gulei ethylene project, a joint venture between China’s Sinopec and Saudi Aramco, reportedly completed high-standard mid-transfer on June 18, with an ethylene facility of up to 1.8 million tons annual capacity — the world’s largest single ethylene unit.