Background: SAMREF will undertake modifications to its Yanbu refinery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to comply with the 2013 mandatory specifications for gasoline with 10 ppm sulphur, 1% benzene and diesel with 50 ppm.  In addition, diesel with 10 ppm of sulphur will be mandatory by 2016. The project is the largest investment in SAMREF’s history and will reduce the sulfur levels in gasoline and diesel by more than 98 percent, to 10 parts per million, which makes the refinery an industry leader in emissions reduction.

Owner: SAMREF, an equally owned joint venture between Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and Mobil Yanbu Refining Company Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation)

Contractor: Worley Parsons(EPC)

Consultants: Worley Parsons(FEED)

Facility Property: Refinery Plant

Capacity: This site processes 400 mbpd of crude oil into fuels

Scope of Work:

Phase 1 will install a grassroots desulphurization train to treat 60,000 bpd of FCCU gasoline.  The project will also have an extensive brownfield component to revamp the 98,000 bpd distillate hydrotreater and refinery utilities infrastructure.

Phase 2 will be executed separately from Phase 1.  The scope may include a new high pressure distillate hydrotreater, hydrogen manufacturing, sulphur recovery, and off-sites and utilities infrastructure.  Business planning for Phase 2 began in 2009.

Project Value:  $2.5 billion

Ownership Type: JV

Constration Property: Standalone