GREENHOUSE GAS

Given international concerns about climate change, SABIC is committed to improving its own carbon footprint, investing in innovations that reduce the environmental impacts of our products – for the benefit of SABIC and its customers – as well as supporting global solutions for a sustainable future.

This year, we continued to advance toward our 2025 goals. Our greenhouse-gas emissions intensity, measured in metric tons of CO₂ per metric ton of product sales, fell from 1.23 to 1.22. This marks a 0.8 percent reduction in emissions from 2017, and a 10.2 percent reduction from our 2010 baseline.

Among the projects that helped this progress, our Ibn Zahr affiliate cleaned heater coils at its MTBE-2 plant, reducing the site’s emissions by 4,300 metric tons of CO₂ each year. Our Petrokemya PVC team conducted a successful upgrade to eliminate undesirable cleaning processes, increasing productivity while reducing emissions by 1,440 tons of CO₂ per year. We continue to benefit from our carbon capture and utilization plant at United. The plant’s load will increase to maximum capacity once a new ethylene glycol plant at United is operational in 2021.