Syria Business 2004/4/18　　　　

Daaboul launches major petrochem plant
http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/37974.html

Daaboul has built a major LAB plant in partnership with Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi and financing from IFC. The project is one of the major private sector industrial ventures in the country.

Syria's Daaboul Economic Group has launched, in partnership with Saudi Arabia's al-Rajhi a 40,000 tonne Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) plant, the second largest plant of this type in the region in terms of production capacity and the 23rd in the world.
LAB is the major feedstock required to produce all kinds of detergents, from liquid soap to dishwasher powder.

The United Joint Stock Company for Petrochemical Industries is a SYP 2.3 billion (US$ 44 million) investment and will help in the integration of the Daaboul Economic Group (DEG) which is the largest producer of detergents in Syria, offering laundry powders, dishwashing paste, and cleaning and disinfecting liquids. Daaboul Detergents already produces 35,000 tonnes a year (t/y) of powder, 15,000 t/y of paste, and 15,000 t/y of liquid cleaners.

The Plastics Exchange 2005/12/27

Syria, Russia sign 2.7bn dollar deal to build oil complex in Syria

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Dr Ibrahim Haddad and Director General of the Russian Company for Investment Credit Line Pyrev Nizami signed a memorandum of understanding to build a 2.7bn dollar oil complex consisting of an oil refinery and a petrochemical complex in the Syrian province Dayr al-Zur.

He added that the by-products of the complex will be various, such as home gas, polyethylene, polypropylene, gasoline and octane as items very important for chemical industries in Syria.