Further to the previous announcement, which was published in Tadawul on July 7th , 2013. Sahara petrochemicals company announces that the construction work in the Butanol plant is ongoing, and based on the evaluation of the level of progress, it is expected that the Butanol plant will commence its trail start up in the third quarter of this year 2015G and will last for three to six months subject to the Performance Test of the plant and efficiency of production in accordance to the technology licenser and EPC contracts
Sahara Petrochemicals declare that it is difficult now to measure the financial impact of this because of its relation to the changes in energy prices . And it is worth mentioning that the project is equally owned by Sadara Chemicals Company, Saudi Kayan Petrochemicals Company and Saudi Acrylic Acid Company (SAAC) to own and finance a plant to produce Butanol with a capacity of 330,000 metric tons per annum of n-butanol and 11,000 metric tons per annum of iso-butanol, and Sahara Petrochemicals Company owns 43.16% of SAAC. Any development in this regard will be announced later on.

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