Qatar Petroleum announced on 19 Apr that it has completed the integration of Seef petrochemical company, after buying out the 20% external stake at end-2018 (MEES, 11 January 2019). “Starting today…QP Operations (Refining) is fully operating Seef’s facilities… extracting synergies between QP refining operations and Seef,” QP says.

Seef operates a 100,000 t/y linear alkyl benzene (LAB) plant in the Mesaieed industrial zone in southeast Qatar alongside the 137,000 b/d QP refinery. The refinery provides the LAB plant with its kerosene feedstock. (CONTINUED - 80 WORDS)