Project Profile
Value: US$12,800 million
Start-up Month: Q2
Start-up Year: 2013
Refinery: 400,000 bbl/day
Location: Eastern Province, Jubail
The project will see the proposed construction of a second grassroots refinery to be built by Saudi Aramco with an IOC. The refinery will have a capacity of 400,000-420,000 b/d. The refinery scheme is geared to maximizing the production of diesel and jet fuels. In addition, the project will produce 700,000 tonnes per year (t/y) of paraxylene, 140,000 t/y of benzene and 200,000 t/y of polymer-grade propylene. The facility will involve the installation of naptha hydrotreatrers and splitters, twin catalytic reformers, isomerisation units, distillate hydrotreaters, vacuum distillation units, hydrocrackers and fluid catalytic crackers (FCC\'s). The refinery will be designed to process Arabian Heavy crude and will produce high-quality refined products that meet current and future product specifications. The facility will produce clean fuels, for markets in Asia, Mediterranean and Europe.
An aromatics unit will also be built. Five main packages include an aromatics unit, a conversion unit, a distillate and hydrotreater package, a coker unit and main pipe rack package.
Package 1, covers distillation and hydrotreating and is worth US$1.2bn,
Package 2 is split into two parts, covering a conversion unit and a sulphur and amine saltwater treatment unit respectively. The first part of the package is worth US$1.7bn and the second US$400m.
Package 3 include aromatics and is worth US$650m.
Package 4 covers a coker unit and is estimated to cost US$850m.
Package 5A includes offsites and utilities unit and is worth US$1.3bn.
Package 5B covers plant utilities and is worth US$700m.
Package 6 is a refinery tank farm.
Package 9 covers a port tank farm.
There are two further packages for international contractors covering the interconnection of different refinery units along with plant utilities, which are also to be tendered. The remaining two packages, which are expected to go to local firms, cover auxiliary utilities and pipeline works. At least five smaller packages will also be made available to local contractors.
Operator:
Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Co. (Satorp)
Which is a joint venture between:
Saudi Aramco: Operator with 62.5% interest
Total: 37.5% interest
Contractors:
Al-Osais Contracting Company: EPC - General building works (Package 7)
Alfa Laval: Heat exchangers
Axens: Technology supplier
Contracting & Construction Enterprises (CCE): EPC - Temporary construction facilities
Consortium to provide refinery maintenance services:
KBR
AYTB
Consortium for coker unit (Package 4) EPC work:
Chiyoda Corp.
Samsung
Consortium for interconnection, gas flaring and electrical systems EPC work:
CTCI Corporation
Technip
Daelim Industrial Company: EPC - Sulphur and amine salt-water treatment unit (Package 2B)
Elliot Turbomachinery: 17 compressor trains
Foster Wheeler: Process design package for a new delayed coker
Gulf Consolidated Contractors: EPC - Pipelines and off plot facilities (Package 8)
Hertel: Paint piping and equipment for Package 2A
Invensys Process Systems: Automation systems and integrated refinery information system (IRIS)
Mohammad al-Mojil Group: EPC - Mechanical works
MR Al-Kathlan: EPC - Auxiliary utilities (Package 5C)
Petrol Steel: EPC - Tank farm (Package 6)
Punj Lloyd: EPC - Port tank farm (Package 9)
Samsung Heavy Industries: EPC - Aromatics (Package 3)
Sinopec E&C Middle East Co. Ltd. and Nasser S Al Hajri Corporation: EPC - CDU/VDU plant
SK Engineering & Construction: EPC - utilities (Package 5B)
Sumitomo: Telecommunication system (Package 10)
Tecnicas Reunidas SA: EPC - Distillation and hydrotreating contract (package 1)
Technip Saudi Arabia: FEED and PMC
Jacobs Engineering Group: to provide general engineering services as part of the 2-year contract, Jacobs will deliver a range of feasibility studies, concept design, and detailed engineering-design services for a portfolio of minor capital expenditure projects at Satorp’s Jubail Industrial City II installations. (May 2016)
Sub contractor:
Cape Group: Insulation works on the CDU/VDU plant for Sinopec
Morgan Thermal Ceramics: Fired heaters for KTI Corp., (Technip Saudi Arabia)
Nesma & Partners Contracting Company: Mechanical contractors for Technip