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PetroRabigh Net Losses Swell to $334.9m in 2008
RIYADH - PetroRabigh, a joint venture between Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical and Saudi Aramco, said net loss almost trippled in 2008 on a drop in prices of refined products and a delay in the start of some units.
The firm made a net loss of 1.26 billion riyals ($334.9 million) in 2008 down from 443 million riyals in 2007, the firm, also known as Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co, said in a statement posted on the bourse’s web site.
Profits were hit by delays in starting production at several new petrochemical plants and refinery units, in addition to losses from “a decline in both the prices of and global demand on oil products”, it said.
The firm plans to start commercial production before the end of March despite poor global demand, Chief Financial Officer Toshiki Matsumura told Reuters earlier this month. Last September, PetroRabigh said it would defer by three months the commercial launch of operations at its $10.3 billion refining and petrochemical plant to the first quarter of 2009.
PetroRabigh started partial operation of its facilities in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Aramco and Sumitomo Chemicals paired up in 2005 to upgrade a 400,000 barrel per day (bpd) oil refinery and
add a petrochemical
complex.
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