Project Profile
Value: US$2,200 million
Location: Zarqa, Jordan
Capacity: 5.25 million tons/annum & 105,000 bbl/day
Start-up Year: 2015
The project will raise refining capacity by about 25,000 bpd to nearly 130,000 bpd. It will also involve a major expansion of storage facilities, and an upgrade to improve product quality, to environmental standards such as Euro 4. Gasoline and diesel receiving station - construction of a waitinmg yard for at least 24 road tankers, an office building and a sub station. The planned capacity is 17,000 bpd gasoline and 34,500 bpd diesel. The refinery is being expanded and upgraded.
The expansion will augment the capacity of the refinery from the present 105,000 barrels per day (BBL/d) to 131,000 BBL/d. The scope of upgrade operations includes process refinements to comply with the latest European emissions standards, in addition to replacing older components with units capable of producing unleaded gasoline and a low sulfur diesel variant, with less than 50 parts per million of sulfur content.
Operator:
Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC): Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Atlas Investment Group
Honeywell International Inc
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
McCarthy Tetrault
MW Kellogg Ltd
Taylor DeJongh