SABIC Standardizes on Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise

Saudi Basic Industries, a petrochemicals manufacturer, has decided to standardize on Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise, including SmartPlant 3D and SmartPlant Foundation, as its engineering design and data management platform for all of its manufacturing affiliates.

Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) products include chemicals, plastics, fertilizers and metals. SABIC will use the SmartPlant Enterprise to facilitate data handover from its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors to its affiliates’ plants and assist in every aspect of the plant life cycle. This includes design, procurement, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance, expansions, retrofits and decommissioning, if applicable.

As the basis of the SABIC Technical Information Management System (STIMS) project, SABIC standardized on the SmartPlant Enterprise and will use the full portfolio of engineering design and data management solutions to create a truly integrated enterprise-wide design environment.

Among the SABIC affiliates that have already begun implementation of SmartPlant Enterprise solutions are: Jubail United Petrochemical, Eastern Petrochemical, Petrochemical complex, National Petrochemical, and Al-Jubail Fertilizer.

As the SABIC affiliates standardize on the SmartPlant Enterprise solutions, all deliverables from existing plant expansions as well as new plant construction will be in the same format, ensuring data compatibility through project sharing.

According to Intergraph, SmartPlant Enterprise offers EPCs and plant owner/operators a full enterprise solution that manages engineering design and data critical to physical plant assets and integrates engineering with other businesses and operational systems. It is a low-risk, scalable solution that increases productivity through work sharing and reducing plant design errors while improving project execution, handover, operational and maintenance efficiency over the plant life cycle.