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The article reports on the increase in the net earnings of Bahrain-based Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co. (GPIC) for the third quarter of 2006. Total plant output was 1.1m tonnes, an increase of 15% from 2005, with a 22% rise in total exports, compared with the same period last year. GPIC chairman, Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalfia, said that the company was considering investment opportunities that would be feasible to its partners.

The article reports that Kuwait Finance House has postponed its plans for an ethylene dichloride/caustic soda plant in Bahrain because of a shortage of gas feedstock. The facility to be constructed in Sitra, Bahrain, is expected to produce 150,000 tons per year of ethylene, 315,000 tons per year of ethylene dichloride and 500,000 tons per year of caustic soda.