Name of client  :  Saudi Aramco – Saudi Arabian Oil Company Sumitomo Chemical Company
Revised budget  :  $8 billion
Facility type  :  Aromatics
Sector  : Petrochemicals
Status  :  Construction
Location : Rabigh
Feed  : KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root) and JGC Corp.
PMC  : JGC Corp and Saipem
Main Contractor  : JGC Corp, Saipem, GS Engi- neering & Construction, Daelim Indus trial Co, Ltd and Petrofac

Background

Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical Company have formed a joint venture to expand the PetroRabigh integrated refinery and petrochemical complex at the Red Sea coast of Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. The proposed scheme, known as PetroRabigh phase 2, includes the expansion of the ethane cracker and the construction of five petrochemical plants, an aromatics complex and an ethylene cracker debottlenecking plant, along with atleast 15 downstream chemical production plants. Project status

August 2015: PetroRabigh plans to shut its Linear density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant for maintenance turnaround early October 2015. It is expected to remain off-stream for around 45 days.

Project scope

The Petro Rabigh Refinery is a topping refinery which consists of the following:
• A 340,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude distillation unit;
• A 47,000 bpd hydrotreater;
• A 12 million cubic feet per day (cfd) hydrogen plant;
• A 75,000 bpd naphtha merox unit; and
• A 60,000 bpd kerosene merox unit along with supporting utilities, product tankage and a marine terminal.

Project schedule

Feasibility Study Q1-2007
Feed ITB Q4-2007
Feed  Q2-2009
PMC  Q2-2009
EPC  Q2-2012
Completion Q4-2016