Aramco
A signing ceremony took place in Dhahran attended by Amin H. Nasser, Aramco President and CEO, and TotalEnergies Chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanné. Image Credit: Gulf News archive

Riyadh: Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and TotalEnergies have signed an $11 billion contract to start building a new petrochemicals complex in Saudi Arabia, the two companies said in a joint statement on Saturday.

“Aramco and TotalEnergies today awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the $11 billion “Amiral” complex, a future world-scale petrochemicals facility expansion at the SATORP refinery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the statement read.