Name of client : Ministry of Petroleum & Minerals (Saudi Arabia), Saudi Aramco

Budget : $2.1 billion

Facility type : Oil Production

Sector : Oil, Petrochemicals, Refining

Status : Construction

Location : Jizan

Feed : KBR – Kellogg Brown & Root

PMC : KBR – Kellogg Brown & Root

Main contractor : Hanwha Engineering & Construction, Saipem, SK Engineering & Construction,

JGC Corporation, Petrofac, Tecnicas Reunidas, Hitachi Plant Technologies, Hyun dai Heavy Industries, Abdulali Al Ajmi Company, Air

Products and Acwa Holding

Background

Saudi Aramco’s new Jizan Refinery will be a grassroots facility with an anticipated capacity of up to 400,000 barrels per day (bpd). The additional refined products from the new facility will satisfy the growth in domestic demand within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The refinery will be capable of processing Arabian crude oils to manufacture approximately 75,000 bpd of gasoline, 100,000-160,000 bpd of ultra-low-sulfur diesel (10 parts per million), and 160,000-220,000 bpd of fuel oil, depending on the crude mix processed.

Project status

February 2017: Jizan Refinery Complex is 70 per cent complete. The project construction is progressing steadily according to plan

Project scope

The successful bidder for the license will determine with the Ministry of Petroleum the exact configuration and capacities for the proposed integrated grass roots refinery.

The scope is likely to include the following units:

• Crude Unit

• Vacuum Unit

• Fluid Catalytic Cracker

• FCC gasoline HDS

• Full Conversion Hydrocracker

• HF Alkylation

• Mild Hydrocracker

• Hydrotreater – Light Gasoil/Kero

• Hydrotreater – Middle Distillate

• Hydrotreater – High Severity

Project finance

Saudi Aramco and the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources are the clients on the scheme.

Project schedule

Feed Q3-2010

PMC Q3-2010

EPC ITB Q1-2012

Engineering & Procurement Q4-2012

Construction Q2-2015

Completion Q3-2018