39 CIRCULAR CARBON
TRANSFORMING PETROLEUM
The “holy grail” of crude oil-to-chemicals
GIVEN THE INCREASING DEMAND FOR CHEMICALS AND PROJECTED DECREASE IN DEMAND FOR PETROCHEMICALS IN THE COMING DECADES, WE NEED TO RETHINK THE WAY OIL IS BEING REFINED AND TRANSFORMED. AT KAUST, WE ARE DEVELOPING NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO DEVELOP THE OIL-TO-CHEMICALS PROCESS WITH THE AIM OF CREATING JORGE GASCON Director of the KAUST Catalysis Center and Professor of Chemical Engineering
PETROCHEMICALS FROM CRUDE IN A SINGLE STEP.
