Project Profile
Value: US$1,500 million
Location: Al Madinah, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia
Start-up Year: 2018
Refinery: 400,000 bbl/day
The project will see the US$2 billion upgrade of the 400,000 b/d oil refinery to meet environmental regulations by 2013. The project is in to two phases, the first covering process units and the second offsites and utilities. The process unit package covers the creation of facilities, including a hydrogenation unit, which reduces sulphur from diesel supply, a splitter to divide naptha and a heavy naptha hydrotreater. Other facilities include a 40,000-b/d distillate hydrotreater, a sulphur recovery unit and handling facilities, and a sour water stripper. A 70 million cubic feet a day gas supply also forms part of the scope and will either be owned and operated by Samref or supplied by a third party. A decision is to be made on this by the end of the year (2008). The offsites and utilities package covers tie-ins for all process units, connections to the control system and the relocation of the refinery\'s laboratory. The project will be carried out on a cost-reimbursable basis. The law change requires gasoline to have a sulphur content of less than 10 parts per million (ppm) and 1% benzene by 2013. Diesel must have less than 50 ppm of sulphur by 2013 and 10 ppm by 2016. The bulk of the kingdom\'s refineries escape the legislation because they do not sell refined products to the US. However, Samref exports 46,000 b/d to the US, meaning it must comply with the rules.
Operator:
Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Co Ltd (SAMREF): Constituent companies:
ExxonMobil
Saudi Aramco
Contractors:
Al Rushaid Construction Co., Ltd. (ARCC): EPC contract
Kentz Corporation Limited: General engineering services
WorleyParsons: EPC and FEED contract
Zamil Steel: Steel works