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Arab And World Developments
just to the Indonesian market, but also elsewhere in southeast Asia.
On the other hand, Saudi Aramco/Shell Motiva joint venture is in
process of completing the expansion of its Port Arthur refinery from
325,000 b/d to 600,000 b/d, which will become the biggest refinery
in USA.
Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Company (Luberef)
recently awarded South Korea’s Samsung Engineering the
engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the
expansion of its $1billion lubricants refinery at Yanbu.
Saudi Aramco owns Luberef at 70% and Saudi Jadwa Industrial
Investment at 30%. The company currently has capacity to produce a
total of around 550,000 tons/year of lubricants from two Saudi plants,
at Jiddah and at Yanbu. The expansion at Yanbu will take Luberef’s
total output capacity to 1.2 million ton/year.
The expansion will include the addition of a hydrocracker with a
capacity of 23,000 b/d, an isodewaxing unit, and a sulfur recovery
unit. Additional work will include a revamp of the refinery’s
propane deasphalting unit for doubling the capacity to 12,500 b/d,
and raising the capacity of vacuum distillation unit from 26,000 b/d
to 39,000 b/d. The project is scheduled to be completed in March
2014.
Saudi Aramco has extended the bidding deadline for the Clean
Fuel Project at its 120,000 b/d Riyadh refinery.
The Riyadh refinery upgrade is part of a Saudi Aramco plan
to reduce the sulphur content of its refineries’ gasoline and diesel
output to a maximum of 10 parts per million. The project will include
installing new isomerization, naphtha splitting and hydrotreating
units, as well as addition of new equipment.
