2020 RPME Top 30 EPC Contractors: Air Liquide

2020 RPME Top 30 EPC Contractors: Air Liquide

In January 2020, Air Liquide Arabia (ALAR) announced that it kickstarted commercial operations at its flagship pipeline network in Yanbu, on the West Coast of Saudi Arabia, by supplying hydrogen to SAMREF, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Mobil Yanbu Refining Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation.. As one of the Middle East's leading refineries, SAMREF represents ALAR's first customer on the pipeline network, which will also start supplying three other major industrial companies in Yanbu Industrial City in the coming months.. ALAR will produce the hydrogen supplied to SAMREF from its global-scale hydrogen production site located on the premises of YASREF refinery, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and China Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC).. In July 2019, Air Liquide signed a long-term agreement with Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV), a 50/50 joint venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC, to supply oxygen and nitrogen from its industrial gas pipeline network to GCGV's planned ethane cracker facility located near Corpus Christi, in Texas..