MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

10.04.2013

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES COMPANY KSC (PIC)

 

 

Registered Office :

Shakir Al Kazimi Building, Khalid Ibn Waleed Street, P O Box 1084, Safat 13011

 

 

Country :

Kuwait

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2011

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

23.07.1963

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

9049, Safat

 

 

Legal Form :

Kuwaiti Shareholding Company - KSC

 

 

Line of Business :

Producers of petrochemicals

 

 

No. of Employees :

1700 employees

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

A

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Fairly Large

 

Status :

Good

Payment Behaviour :

No Complaints

Litigation :

Clear 

 

NOTES:

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List – June 30th, 2012

                                                   

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.03.2012)

Current Rating

(30.06.2012)

Kuwait

A2

A2

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 

Kuwait - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

Kuwait has a geographically small, but wealthy, relatively open economy with crude oil reserves of about 104 billion barrels - about 7% of world reserves. Petroleum accounts for nearly half of GDP, 95% of export revenues, and 95% of government income. Kuwaiti officials have committed to increasing oil production to 4 million barrels per day by 2020. The rise in global oil prices throughout 2011 is reviving government consumption and economic growth. Kuwait has experienced a 20% increase in government budget revenue, which has led to higher budget expenditures, particularly wage hikes for many public sector employees. Kuwait has done little to diversify its economy, in part, because of this positive fiscal situation, and, in part, due to the poor business climate and the acrimonious relationship between the National Assembly and the executive branch, which has stymied most movement on economic reforms. In 2010, Kuwait passed an economic development plan that pledges to spend up to $130 billion over five years to diversify the economy away from oil, attract more investment, and boost private sector participation in the economy.

 

 

Source : CIA

 


SUMMARY

 

Company Name                                     : PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES COMPANY KSC (PIC)

Country of Origin                                                : Kuwait

Legal Form                                            : Kuwaiti Shareholding Company - KSC

Registration Date                                   : 23rd July 1963

Commercial Registration Number                        : 9049, Safat

Membership Number                              : 544

Issued Capital                                        : KD 600,000,000

Paid up Capital                                      : KD 600,000,000

Total Workforce                                     : 1,700

Activities                                               : Producers of petrochemicals.

Financial Condition                                 : Good

Payments                                             : Nothing detrimental uncovered

Operating Trend                                     : Steady

 

 

 


COMPANY NAME

 

PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES COMPANY KSC (PIC)

 

 

company ADDRESS

 

Registered & Physical Address

Building             : Shakir Al Kazimi Building

Street               : Khalid Ibn Waleed Street

PO Box             : 1084

Town                 : Safat 13011

Country             : Kuwait

Telephone         : (965) 3211000 / 2448280 / 2422141

Facsimile          : (965) 3211171 / 2405791 / 2445913

Email                : media@pic.com.kw

 

Premises

Subject operates from a large suite of offices that are owned and located in the Central Business Area of Safat.

 

Branch Office (s)

 

     Location                                                                                          Description

 

·       PO Box: 9116                                                                                   Owned fertiliser plant

Ahmadi 61002

Tel: (965) 3260622 / 3261544

Fax: (965) 3261860

 

·       PO Box: 9453                                                                                   Owned Poly-Propylene Plant

Ahmadi 61005

Tel: (965) 3262032

Fax: (965) 3261779

 

·       Subject operates a further 9 branches located throughout Kuwait.

 

 

KEY PRINCIPALS

 

     Name                                                                                              Position

·       Mrs Maha Abdulrahman Mulla Hussain                                               Chairman & Managing Director

·       Shaza Nasser Al Sabah                                                                     Director

·       Hosneya Sayed Hashim                                                                    Director

·       Anwar Saeed Ben Salama                                                                 Director

·       Dr Mohammed Al Ramadan                                                               Director

·       Mohammed Ghazi Al Mutairi                                                              Director

 

·       Abdulhadi Al Awad                                                                            Director

·       Saad Mohamed Alajmi                                                                       Administration Manager

·       Anwar Salamah                                                                                 Manufacturing Manager

·       Mohamed Al Hasawi                                                                          Projects Manager

·       Salah Sayid Behbehani                                                                      Sales Manager

·       Ahmed A Habib                                                                                 Technical Manager

 

 

LEGAL FORM & OWNERS

 

Date of Establishment  : 23rd July 1963

 

Legal Form                  : Kuwaiti Shareholding Company - KSC

 

Commercial Reg. No.  : 9049, Safat

 

Membership No.          : 544

 

Issued Capital              : KD 600,000,000

 

Paid up Capital            : KD 600,000,000

 

Name of Shareholder (s)                                              Percentage

 

·       Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) *                            100%

     Salhiya Complex, 1st – 15th Floors

     Fahed Al Salem Street

     PO Box : 26565

     Safat 13126

     Tel : (965) 2455455 / 2463318

     Fax : (965) 2467159 / 2423371 / 2451403

 

*    Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) is wholly owned by the Government of Kuwait and is responsible to the Ministry of Oil.

 

 

AFFILIATED COMPANIES

 

Subject is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), which has overall responsibility for Kuwait’s local and foreign oil industry investments. The following concerns are wholly or partly owned by KPC:

 

     Name                                                                                                          Percentage Held

 

·       Kuwait Oil Co (KOC)                                                                                              100 %

PO Box: 9758

Ahmadi 61008

       Tel: (965) 3989111 / 3984111

Fax: (965) 3982661

 

·       Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC)                                                                    100 %

PO Box: 70

Safat 13001

Tel: (965) 2420121 / 2449401

Fax: (965) 2442954

 

·       Kuwait Oil Tanker Co (KOTC)                                                                     100 %

PO Box: 810

Safat 13009

Tel: (965) 2455455

Fax: (965) 2445907

 

·       Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co (KUFPEC)                                                100 %

PO Box: 5291

Safat 13053

Tel: (965) 2421677

Fax: (965) 2437985

 

·       Kuwait Santa Fe Braun for Engineering & Petroleum Enterprises KSC                       100 %

PO Box: 9282

Ahmadi 61003

Tel: (965) 3985011

Fax: (965) 3981030

 

·       Kuwait Aviation Fuelling Co KSC (KAFCO)                                                              100 %

PO Box: 1654

Safat 13017

Tel: (965) 4330507 / 4330483

Fax: (965) 4330475

    

·       SFIC Holdings (Cayman) Inc                                                                                  100 %

Cayman Islands

 

·       KPC Holdings (Aruba) AEC                                                                                    100 %

 

·       Petrochemical Industries Holdings NV                                                         100 %

 

·       KP North Sea Holdings Ltd                                                                                    100 %

 

·       Gulf Industrial Investment Co EC                                                                             100 %

 

·       Kuwait Drilling Co KSC                                                                                            49 %

 

·       Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co (GPIC)                                                                   33 %

     Bahrain

 

·       Sino Arab Chemical Fertilizer Co (SACF)                                                                  30 %

China

 

·       Boubyan Petrochemical Co                                                                                      10 %

 

·       Arabian Oil Company                                                                                   10 %

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities: Petrochemical Industries Company was founded with the objective of setting up various types of

     petrochemical industries to promote and diversify the sources of national income through exploitation

     of the natural gas that accompanies crude oil reserves.

 

Facilities

 

Subject’s facilities have undergone several phases of expansion and new plants have been constructed over the past few years. The company now claims the largest ammonia and urea manufacturing complex in the Middle East, and an ultra-modern plant for salt and chlorine products. PIC’s fertiliser plants have gone through several stages of expansion, merger and development over the years and now comprise of the following units:

4 - Liquid ammonia plants

3 - Urea plants

1 - Concentrated sulphuric acid plant

 

Production Capacity

 

                        Product                        Daily Production Capacity       Daily Production Capacity

                                                                        (Designed)                               (Actual)

 

                        Salt                                          150 tonnes                                100 tonnes

                        Chlorine Gas                               75 tonnes                                  38 tonnes

                        Liquid Chlorine                             50 tonnes                                  25 tonnes

Liquid Caustic Soda                     84 tonnes                                  43 tonnes

Caustic Soda Flakes                    50 tonnes                                  17 tonnes

Solid Caustic Soda                      80 tonnes                                  17 tonnes

Hydrochloric acid                         40 cubic metres                         31 cubic metres

Sodium Hypochlorate                   35 cubic metres                         17 cubic metres

Compressed Hydrogen Gas        303 cubic metres                       129 cubic metres

 

PIC Agents

 

·       Tenant Limited                                                                                                                                  Australia

·       S.K. Global                                       North Korea

·       Transfert Ltd.                                    India

·       Minaz International                            India

·       Ahmed Jaffer & Company (P) Ltd        Pakistan

·       Yordan Obeji & Co                            Jordan

·       Al Matin Co. for Trade & Industry        Syria

·       Omnitrade Marketing                         Lebanon

·       Tunice Negoce                                  Tunisia

·       Mitsubishi Corporation                       Hong Kong

 

Import Countries: United States of America

 

Operating Trend: Steady

 

Subject has a workforce of approximately 1,700 employees.

 

 

FINANCIAL DATA

 

Financial highlights provided by local sources are given below:

 

Currency: Kuwaiti Dinars (KD)

 

Consolidated Income Statement                                   31/03/11                        31/03/10

 

Sales                                                                            612,639,372                  452,127,090

Cost of sales                                                                 (505,958,998)                (408,251,369)

GROSS PROFIT                                                            106,680,374                  43,875,721

Share of results of associates                                         107,704,606                  56,716,450

Distribution, general and administrative expenses             (20,064,285)                  (16,625,383)

Interest income                                                              1,049,108                      1,028,399

Other income                                                                 4,079,185                      2,359,584

Other expenses                                                             (5,906,497)                    (2,307,631)

Finance costs                                                                (1,806,517)                    (2,571,315)

Net (loss) gain on foreign exchange                                 (2,687,885)                    1,650,029

Compensation claims                                                     -                                   9,215,585

Impairment of property, plant and equipment                     -                                   (3,864,362)

PROFIT BEFORE INCOME TAX EXPENSE AND

BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION                    189,048,089                  89,477,077

Provision for income tax                                                  (10,820,239)                  (6,097,104)

Board of directors’ remuneration                          (40,900)                        (42,200)

PROFIT FOR THE YEAR                                                178,186,950                  83,337,773

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

Foreign currency translation adjustments             (22,951,577)                  4,276,326

Unrealised (loss) gain on financial assets available

for sale                                                                          (1,540,000)                    4,180,000

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS) INCOME FOR

THE YEAR                                                                    (24,491,577)                  8,456,326

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME                               153,695,373                  91,794,099

Total profit for the year attributable to:

Equity holders of the parent company                              177,612,932                  82,765,275

Non-controlling interests                                                 574,018                         572,498

178,186,950                  83,337,773

Total comprehensive income attributable to:

Equity holders of the parent company                              153,121,355                  91,221,601

Non-controlling interests                                                 574,018                         572,498

153,695,373                  91,794,099

 

Consolidated Balance Sheet                                         31/03/11                        31/03/10

 

ASSETS

Non-current assets

Property, plant and equipment                                         150,723,078                  167,902,877

Goodwill                                                                        97,613,292                    103,164,440

Intangible assets                                                            1,145,846                      1,410,852

Investments in associates                                               285,174,608                  299,986,657

Financial asset available for sale                                     19,140,000                    20,680,000

Revolving loans due from a joint venture                1,735,062                      -

Due from the ultimate parent company                             102,672,390                  94,391,642

Spare parts                                                                   12,791,425                    13,214,735

Other assets                                                                 85,915,828                    89,744,518

756,911,529                  790,495,721

Current assets

Inventories                                                                     28,938,203                    29,886,505

Accounts receivable and prepayments                             101,049,949                  93,237,134

Due from related parties                                      873,092                         2,327,121

Bank balances, deposits and cash                                  198,451,227                  83,501,121

329,312,471                  208,951,881

TOTAL ASSETS                                                            1,086,224,000                999,447,602

EQUITY AND LIABILITIES

Equity

Share capital                                                                 600,000,000                  600,000,000

Statutory reserve                                                            120,437,773                  102,672,390

Foreign currency translation reserve                                 (20,698,317)                  2,253,260

Cumulative changes in fair values                                    8,140,000                      9,680,000

Equity attributable to equity holders of the parent

company                                                                       707,879,456                  714,605,650

Non-controlling interests                                                 3,053,710                      3,470,400

Total equity                                                                   710,933,166                  718,076,050

Non-current liabilities

Long term borrowings                                                     39,879,644                    44,869,380

Obligations under finance leases                                     13,214,236                    16,513,320

Employees’ end of service benefits                                  14,457,367                    13,170,306

Other liabilities                                                               28,754,840                    19,651,140

96,306,087                    94,204,146

Current liabilities

Accounts payable and accruals                                       109,540,813                  95,169,231

Short term borrowings and current portion of long term

borrowings                                                                     7,523,231                      15,407,130

Obligations under finance leases                                     1,068,799                      592,860

Dividends payable                                                          159,847,549                  74,484,527

Due to related parties                                                     1,004,355                      1,513,658

278,984,747                  187,167,406

Total liabilities                                                                375,290,834                  281,371,552

TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES                                   1,086,224,000                999,447,602

 

Local sources consider subject’s financial condition to be Good.

 

 


BANKERS

 

·       Bank of Kuwait & the Middle East (KSC)

Abdullah Al Salem Street

PO Box: 71

Safat 13001

Tel: (965) 22459771

 

·       National Bank of Kuwait SAK

Abdullah Al Salem Street

PO Box: 95

Safat 13001

Tel: (965) 22421161

 

·       Commercial Bank of Kuwait SAK

Mubarek Al Kabir Street

PO Box: 2861

Safat 13029

Tel: (965) 22411001

 

 

PAYMENT HISTORY

 

Subject’s payment record is reported to be met in a generally prompt manner.

 

 

GENERAL COMMENTS

 

Established in 1963, Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) now exports its products, including fertilizer, feedstocks, and ammonia, to more than 50 countries worldwide.

 

Subject is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), which in turn is owned by the government of Kuwait and as the subject is deemed trustworthy for respecting its financial trade commitments.

 

 

 


FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.54.46

UK Pound

1

Rs.83.13

Euro

1

Rs.70.99

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

MNL

 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

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NB

New Business

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Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 

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