МOSCOW (MRC) -- Saudi Arabia's Yanbu National Petrochemical Co (Yansab) reported a 63% fall in second-quarter net profit on Tuesday but beat analysts' forecasts slightly, said Reuters.
The firm, a subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), made a net profit of 227.4 million riyals (USD60.6 million) in the three months to June, down from 613 million riyals in the same period of 2014, a statement to the Saudi bourse said.
Five analysts polled by Reuters had on average forecast Yansab would make a quarterly profit of 213 million riyals.
The company attributed the profit drop to lower production and sales volumes, adding that lower prices of some feedstock materials and sales from inventory reduced the negative impact.
As MRC informed earlier, Saudi Arabia's Yanbu National Petrochemical Co. (Yansab) in April shut its petrochemical complex this month for maintenance for 35 days. The shutdown will include an ethylene glycol plant, which will suspend operations for 60 days.
Yansab is the most recent SABIC, (Saudi Basic Industries Corp), affiliate in Saudi Arabia, and will be the largest Sabic petrochemical complex. It will have an annual capacity exceeding 4 million metric tons (MT) of petrochemical products including: 1.3 million MT (metric-tons) of ethylene; 400,000 MT of propylene; 900,000 MT of polyethylene; 400,000 MT of polypropylene; 700,000 MT of ethylene glycol; 250,000 MT of benzene, xylene and toluene, and 100,000 MT of butene-1 and butene-2.
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