Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Company (SAFCO), an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), is constructing what is claimed to be the world's biggest ammonia and urea plant complexes in Jubail with an annual production capacity of 1.1 million tons. This was disclosed to Arab News by Musa'ad Al-Ohaly, Vice President (Fertilizers) of SABIC, who said the new state-of-the-art plant will come on stream by the first quarter of next year. With this, it will increase SABIC's fertilizer production capacity from 2.7 million tons to 3.8 million tons. He was speaking on the occasion of a get-together for SAFCO customers at Thumama, 70 km from Riyadh. More than 50 senior representatives of agricultural companies were entertained at a guest house in the desert. --MORE 1042 Local Time 0742 GMT
