07697. QUALITATIVE COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR THE EASTER PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY (SHARQ) OF SAUDI ARABIA. Or, how to do a cost/benefit study without exact statistics. Covers the current depressed state of the petrochemical industry, how and why Saudi Arabia decided to enter industry and implications for the industry; benefits of the proJect to the company; benefits to Saudi GNP, and social and technical benefits to Saudi development; costs to the company; potential costs to Saudi economy such as problems of pollution or problems with expatriate workers; opportunity costs. Concludes favorably to this Saudi proJect. 18 pages, 28 footnotes, 15 bibliographic sources.