Project Profile
Value: Undisclosed
Location: Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, on a peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
NGL processing capacity: 305,000 BPD NGL
Crude stabilization capacity: 960,000 BPD
Steam capacity: 6,217 Mlb/hr
Combined storage capacity: 5.8 million barrels
Capacity: 550,000 barrels a day (b/d)
Start-up Year: -
The Ras Tanura refinery is fully owned by Saudi Aramco and is the largest oil facility in Saudi Arabia, with a capacity of 550,000 barrels a day (b/d). Ras Tanura is the oldest refinery on the Persian Gulf coast. Ras Tanura project is located in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, on a peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf. The state-owned oil company is currently upgrading its domestic refining capacity to both lower the sulphur content of its downstream output and diversify the amount of refined products it produces.The complex has a crude distillation capacity of 550,000 barrels per day (BPD). Ras Tanura Refinery also has a 305,000 BPD NGL processing facility, a 960,000 BPD crude stabilization facility, 145/158 MW (summer/winter) of combined steam and gas turbine electrical power generation plants, a combined 150 lb and 600 lb steam capacity of 6,217 Mlb/hr, and 75 crude oil and products storage tanks with a combined capacity of 5.8 million barrels.
Ras Tanura Refinery\'s major refining facilities include a 325,000 BPD Crude Distillation Unit, a 225,000 BPD Gas Condensate Distillation Unit, 50,000 BPD hydrocracker and a total of 107,000 BPD capacity of catalytic reforming. Ras Tanura Refinery is the only Saudi Aramco refinery that contains a Visbreaker (60,000 BPD). This refinery also produces 17,000 BPD of asphalt, more than any other refinery in the Kingdom. Crude is normally transferred to Ras Tanura through a pipeline and can also be supplied by ship. Most of Ras Tanura’s production is for domestic use and transferred to the Dhahran bulk plant, while some products are exported.
Operators:
Saudi Aramco: Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Jacobs Engineering Group: Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuels pre-front end engineering design (FEED) services contract
WorleyParsons: Management and FEED services for the expansion of the refinery between 2007 and 2012. The scope of the contract included providing detailed design support, detailed design package preparation and construction management services for the refinery expansion.
SNC-Lavalin: An engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Saudi Aramco for the expansion of asphalt production facilities at its Ras Tanura Refinery in Saudi Arabia. (April 2016)