Project Profile

Value: US$500 million
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Start-up Year: 2015

The project will see the expansion of the existing refinery to reduce the sulfur content of gasoline and diesel produced by the refinery to 10 parts per million, and to reduce the level of benzene in gasoline.

The expansion will include new isomerisation, naphtha splitting and sulfur guard-bed units as well as the addition of new equipment, including a diesel hydrotreater reactor, in existing units. The debottlenecking of the hydrocracker and gas concentration units and replacement of crude and vacuum distillation tower internals are also in the scope of works. Other new facilities include two new tanks, a new pipe rack, instrument air compressor, condensate system, substation, process interface building and workshop. Main control and monitoring systems will also be upgraded, as will the laboratory facilities.

Operator:

Saudi Aramco: Operator with 100% interest

Contractors:

KBR Inc.: Hired to provide technology for a supercritical solvent deasphalting (SDA) unit 

Consortium for the FEED:

Foster Wheeler
Sofcon Group