Clean technology improvements and aromatics plant at the ras tanura refinery. The diesel hydrotreater is the largest of its kind in saudi aramco and capable of processing 105,000 barrels per day of 10partspermillion ppm ultralowsulfur diesel. The ras tanura refinery has a crude distillation capacity of 550,000 barrels per. One option the smaller company considered was to lower its price in a titfortat move. In those days, the refining capacity was 60,000 bld. Saudi aramco to push back shutdown at ras tanura refinery. See 757 photos and 14 tips from 848 visitors to aramco, ras tanura refinery. Ras tanura is one of four residential compounds built by aramco in the 1940s and the only one located on the coast of the persian gulf itself. Aramco diesel hydrotreating dht project ras tanura refinery advisor planning sr planning engineer, abdullah al barrak sons limited, aramco diesel hydrotreating dht project ras tanura refinery posted wed, 20170503 09. Saudi aramcos ras tanura refinery successfully places 544. Ras tanura refinery expansion hydrocarbons technology.
Past expansions at the ras tanura refinery the major facilities at the refinery complex include a 325,000bpd crude distillation unit, a 225,000bpd gas condensate distillation unit and 50,000bpd hydrocracker. It also includes a visbreaker and a natural gas liquids ngl industrial unit. Hi, my husband has recently received an offer from aramco and if we accept we will be based at ras tanura. Majority of the products produced by the refinery are supplied to dhahran bulk plant for domestic use, while the remaining are exported. Saudi aramco ras tanura oil refinery industry about. Ras tanura refinery expansion of asphalt production sog926. Saudi aramco at final stage on ras tanura clean fuel offsites. Ras tanura refinery on the gulf coast is rooted in the history of saudi. Ras tanura refinery has a crude distillation capacity of 550,000 barrels per day. Oca group has been awarded a contract for ras tanura. Find more construction projects in saudi arabia area and download a list of infrastructure projects.
Kipic al zour new refinery package 2 support process plant kuwait. Hydrocracking is a catalytic chemical process used in petroleum refineries for converting the highboiling constituent hydrocarbons in petroleum crude oils to more valuable lowerboiling products such as gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel and diesel oil. Saudi aramco plans cleaner fuels for ras tanura, rabigh refineries. Saudi aramco has shut a 44,000 barrels per day bpd hydrocracker at its ras tanura refinery for one to two weeks, following an outage at the problemridden unit, industry sources said.
Oca group has been awarded a contract for ras tanura refinery clean fuels and harad and hawiya field gas compression projects 22018 oca group international division supply chain services department will monitor the manufacture of 34 centrifugal compressors and one steam turbine for ras tanura refinery clean fuels and harad and. To take full advantage of hydrocracking, the process must be integrated in the refinery with other process units. A grassroots diesel hydrotreater unit primed, licensed by axens, was successfully put into production at saudi aramcos ras tanura refinery. Saudi aramco releases tenders for ras tanura refinery project. Ras tanura itself is a tiny tiny village town next to aramco camp, so most people either drive into dammam or khobar, the largest towns nearby. Apr 14, 2015 saudi arabias ras tanura port reopened on tuesday as weather conditions improved, two shipping industry sources told reuters. Saudi arabias ras tanura port reopens after shutdown al. Kaefer in saudi arabia has been awarded a significant contract for scaffolding works at the ras tanura refinery by our client tecnicas reunidas. Saudi aramco has shut a 44,000 barrels per day bpd hydrocracker at its ras tanura refinery for one to two weeks, following an outage at. Construction project information about ras tanura refinery expansion of asphalt production and its design and tender details, information about client details, construction details, contractormep contractor details, scope, schedule, financial informations and many more. Includes its description, stats, participants, location and more. Rwanda, samoa, san marino, sao tome and principe, saudi arabia. I would like to get information on the living conditions in ras tanura. Ras tanura refinery diesel hydrotreater complex dht, ras tanura.
Nov 4 reuters saudi aramco is expected to shut down its condensate splitter at its ras tanura refinery by the end of november for a month for planned maintenance work, two industry sources said, later than originally planned. News ras tanura refinery runs successfully the new. Jun 19, 2008 ras tanura refinery upgrade project 19911998 the rtr upgrade project changed the refinery configuration from a 300,000bpd topping plant to a full conversion refinery including a hydrocracker, a visbreaker, a naphtha hydrotreater and atmospheric catalytic conversion reformer the largest in the world at the time. Improved unit operations allows flexibility between gasoline and diesel production by maximizing yield cuts. Construction project information about ras tanura refinery dht unit and its design and tender details, information about client details, construction details, contractormep contractor details, scope, schedule, financial informations and many more. There have been considerable delays with the ras tanura integrated petrochemical project rtip, resulting from there being a number of outstanding issues that have yet to be resolved. Ras tanura refinery is the only saudi aramco refinery that contains a visbreaker 60,000 bpd. Saudi aramco has let a turnkey contract to tecnicas reunidas sa, madrid, to provide engineering, procurement. Saudi cleaner fuels project harvests foreign bids to build.
Ras tanura refinery 550,000 bbld 87,000 m3d includes a crude distillation unit, a gas condensate unit, a hydrocracker, and catalytic reforming. Jun 25, 2015 saudi aramco plans cleaner fuels for ras tanura, rabigh refineries. Saudi aramco halts ras tanura clean fuels projectsources. Ras tanura, port on the persian gulf, in eastern saudi arabia, at the tip of a small peninsula. Saudi aramco to award clean fuel project at year end in april 2011, saudi aramco had selected foster wheeler and a. Ras tanura refinerys major refining facilities include a 325,000 bpd crude distillation unit, a 225,000 bpd gas condensate distillation unit, 50,000 bpd hydrocracker and a total of 107,000 bpd capacity of catalytic reforming. The refinery was also upgraded by adding diglycol amine dga regeneration plant and sour water stripper in 1999. Ras tanura refinery on the gulf coast is rooted in the history of saudi aramco. In may 2011 saudi aramco awarded the front end engineering and design to jacobs zate for the ras tanura refinery clean fuel and aromatics project located in the eastern province of saudi arabia, along the arabian gulf, ras tanura is the most complex saudi. Jun 10, 2011 a grassroots diesel hydrotreater unit primed, licensed by axens, was successfully put into production at saudi aramcos ras tanura refinery. That refinery, with a capacity of 50,000 barrels per day bpd, has since grown to become one of the most complex in the world, with a distillation capacity of 550,000 bpd of crude oil and gas condensates, and consisting of an ngl plant, crude. Saudi aramco to shut unit at ras tanura refinery in may.
A number of refineries in the middle east are carrying out planned. The fcc and hydrocracker are not expected to be affected by the works. It took approximately three hours to complete the lift of this 65metres high column after six weeks of site preparation and crane positioning. Po box 3474, ras tanura, al khobar, 31952 ash sharqiyah.
The 105,000 bpsd unit one of the worlds largest produced ultra low sulfur diesel ulsd which contains less than 10 ppm of sulfur. Ras tanura refinery diesel hydrotreater complex dht, ras. Petrofac, tecnicas reunidas likely to win saudi aramco deals. One of the sources said the 225,000 barrel per day splitter, which processes light oils, would be down for 40 days. Life at ras tanura rt living in udhailiyah udh aramcons living in the local community. The 105,000 bpsd unit one of the worlds largest produced ultra low sulfur diesel ulsd which contains less. Some refineries in the middle east are continuing with planned. In addition to the liquid products hydrocracking yields light gases that can be used as fuel for the refinery or as petrochemical feedstock. The port city also supplies crude oil to the world, natural gas liquids and other refined products to tankers that visit the terminal. Saudi aramco plans cleaner fuels for ras tanura, rabigh. Secondly high valuable fractions are drawn off and the bottoms are returned to the 2nd hydrocracking reactor for further cracking under higher temperature and pressure. News ras tanura refinery runs successfully the new diesel. This is in contrast to the fcc, which uses the same feed vgo but produces more and betterquality gasoline the hydrocracker is particularly. But a new 44,000 bd hydrocracker unit was closed in mid2000, less than two months after it came on stream, and could not begin work until recently.
Through the years, ras tanura refinery has grown to better meet the needs of the everchanging marketplace. Attack on key saudi oil terminal could destabilise west. Improving hydrocracker unit operations with the smart refinery the hydrocracker unit is an essential process for the overall refinery profitability in converting low value heavy feedstock into higher value fuels such as diesel and gasoline. A refinery in ras tanura began operations in 1941 with a 3,000barrelsaday bd capacity, but shortages during world war two. This time round, aramco did not shut down the hydrocracker,thats why the refinery was restarted smoothly. Despite hardships and warrelated shortages, ras tanura refinery went online in 1945. The name ras tanura applies both to a gated saudi aramco employee compound also referred to as. Refinery hydroprocessing oil refining pall corporation. Developed by the arabian american oil company now saudi aramco after the discovery of nearby petroleum deposits in the 1930s, it is now a principal persian gulf terminal of the pipelines and has a. Ras tanura refinery clean fuels project has placed its heaviest and largest piece of equipment a naphtha splitter column weighing 544 tonnes.
The splitter was due to be shut for maintenance in october for 30 days, sources had told reuters. Riyadh, february 25, 2016 the muchdelayed clean fuels project at saudi aramcos ras tanura refinery saw movement on thursday with the release of the commercial and technical tenders for the usd 2billion endeavour, the wall street journal reported. Saudi aramco has revived plans to add a clean fuels unit in its biggest oil refinery in ras tanura and more environmentally. Old facility, new lease of life in saudi arabia petroleum economist.
Refiners making these investments frequently turn to mild hydrocracking as a way to produce an incremental amount of diesel and gasoline. Ras tanura is the oldest refinery on the arabian gulf coast, located near the industrial port city of jubail. I have been offered a job in saudi arabia as an engineering manager. Foursquare uses cookies to provide you with an optimal experience, to personalize ads that you may see, and to help advertisers measure the results of their ad campaigns. Saudi aramco increases scope of work for ras tanura. A refinery in ras tanura began operations in 1941 with a 3,000barrelsaday bd capacity, but shortages during world war two meant it was shut within six months.
Intended to enable the refinery the upgrade as much heavy oil as possible into sulfurfree gasoline and diesel fuels to help meet rising demand, the proposed hydrocracker would be based on clgs. Saudi aramcos ras tanura refinery restarts smoothly. This place is situated in eastern province, saudi arabia, its geographical coordinates are 26 38 38 north, 50 9 33 east and its original name with diacritics is ras tanura. The port in the east of saudi arabia, a major oil operations center.
The majority of the products produced by the refinery are. There are shuddle busses that run during the days for wives or your dependants to hop that will take them into dammam and khobar for shopping also. Solution improve product quality by removal of water and solids both upstream and downstream of the steam stripper. The fcc and hydrocracker are not expected to be affected by the works, while. The position includes a living place and transportation. Work on the clean fuels project at ras tanura, which started in 2018, is 62% complete. The facility aquatech is supplying the equipment for two 2 525 gpm seawater distillation systems to saudi arabian oil companys ras tanura refinery in saudi arabia. The refinery was initially designed to process only arabian heavy crude oil. Project status as of march 2015, the project is no longer on hold, but is slowing down its progression. This worldclass refinery that came to being out of the expertise of the two oil giants, saudi aramco and total, is located at jubail industrial city in the east of saudi arabia.
Within months, the facility had exceeded projected capacity and was well on its way to becoming the worldclass industrial complex it is today. Ras tanura refinery clean fuels and aromatics project. Saudi aramco at final stage on ras tanura clean fuel. A grassroots diesel hydrotreater unit primedtm, licensed by axens, was successfully put into production at saudi aramcos ras tanura refinery. Congo misrata sirte pluto methane gkn aerospace india geothermal pipeline fukushima disaster chile earthquake expansion jinshan oil refinery nature ukraine leak russia kariba germany niger nasa joaquin zimbabwe containers foreign matter. It is owned and operated by the stateowned oil company, saudi aramco. The expansion included addition of a crude distillation unit with a capacity of 400 million barrels of oil per day mbod, a vacuum distillation unit with 120mbod, a continuous catalyst regenerator with a capacity of 100mobd, and a 120mbod visbreaker crude unit. Having said that, permit me say to you precisely what s. Background saudi aramco has revealed plans to increase production of higher grade clean fuels at its ras tanura refinery. Employing mirage f1 fighters loaded with incendiary bombs, and two mig23s as fighter cover, iraq intended to demonstrate to the coalition that it was capable of offensive air actions. Find the perfect saudi arabia ras tanura oil refinery stock photo. It is the hq of saudi aramco the american co, set up at the time of king abdul aziz1938. Other contractors performed upgrades to the process systems. Bpd hydrocracker and a total of 107,000 bpd capacity of catalytic reforming.
This yields a high volume of highquality diesel and kerosene product. Now, the revamped units include a 60,000 bd visbreaker and a 40,000 bd hydrocracker, both originally due for startup in august 1998. Mar 17, 2009 the ras tanura refinery began operations in 1945 and currently manufactures about 150,000 barrels of petroleum products every day. If you dont change browser settings you agree with it. Epa chemical accident investigation report tosco avon. The planned hydrotreater complex was aimed to reduce the sulphur content in the diesel produced at the 550000bpd refinery. Kipic al zour new refinery package 1 main process plant kuwait. Saudi arabia s largest refinery is the oldest in the gulf, and with a capacity of 550,000 barrels a day it remains an important part of the kingdom s refining sector.
Ras tanura refinery upgrade project 19911998 the rtr upgrade project changed the refinery configuration from a 300,000bpd topping plant to a full conversion refinery including a hydrocracker, a visbreaker, a naphtha hydrotreater and atmospheric catalytic conversion reformer the largest in the world at the time. Royal dutch shell plc restarted the heavy oil hydrocracker late on monday at its 211270 barrelperday bpd convent, louisiana, refinery. Saudi aramco has inaugurated its ras tanura diesel hydrotreater plant, after 28 months of construction work, the company said in a statement. Environmental protection agency office of solid waste and emergency response chemical emergency preparedness and prevention office washington, d. Hydrocracking unit refinery plant petroleum refining. Saudi aramco ras tanura refinery is located at ash sharqiyah, saudi arabia. Unfortunately, the products from a classic mild hydrocracker will not meet the stringent specifications for 21st century fuels. Gcc refining and petrochemicals project listings gpca. The size of the refinery and the interconnections between all the units and expansions have turned ras tanura as a very complex operating site. It was replaced in 1945 by a refinery with a capacity of 50,000 bd and by the mid1980s it had become a 250,000bd facility. It began operations in 1945, just seven years after the first commercial discovery of oil in the kingdomat the dammam 7 well. In addition, ras tanura operates 270,000 bd catalytic reformer and 305,000 bd natural gas liquids ngl processing unit. Established in the 1940s, the laboratory was the first of its kind in. Tecnicas reunidas wins aramco ras tanura clean fuels contract.
Aramcos ras tanura refinery completes major turnaround and inspection. Ras tanura is wholly owned by saudi aramco and is the largest oil refinery in the middle east. State petroleum giant saudi aramco has issued a new tender for two engineering, procurement and construction packages epc to upgrade its ras tanura refinery, having put bidding on hold early last year, as the collapse in crude prices since mid2014 tightened the screw on. Consequently the refinery also boasts a 30,000 bpd hydrocracker, for upgrading of heavy. The raid on ras tanura was an attempted aerial bombing of the ras tanura oil production facility in saudi arabia during the gulf war.
Sixty years ago, ras tanura refinery went online, replacing a 3,000 barrel per day tea kettle refinery built just a few years before. Jan 30, 2017 singaporekhobar, saudi arabia, jan 30 saudi aramco plans to shut its condensate splitter at the ras tanura refinery in may for planned maintenance, trading sources told reuters on monday. Ras tanura refinery runs successfully the new diesel hydrotreater. Ras tanura is the oldest refinery on the persian gulf coast, located near the industrial port city jubail in saudi arabia. Saudi arabia shuts down ras tanura hydrocracker energy. See all 748 photos taken at aramco, ras tanura refinery by 2,248 visitors. The second phase of this project is to build a clean fuels plant at the refinery. Aramco turns on new diesel hydrotreater plant refining. The ras tanura refinery clean fuels and aromatics project is an upgrade project to the existing ras tanura refinery located in ras tanura in saudi arabia.
Epa550r98009 november 1998 epa chemical accident investigation report tosco avon refinery martinez, california u. Tucked away in the 35 sandy acres of the arabian american oil company refinery at ras tanura, saudi arabia is a strange clearing that might remind some visitors with long memories of the abandoned sidewalks of real estate booms that collapsed in. The major facilities at the refinery complex include a 325,000bpd crude distillation unit, a 225,000bpd gas condensate distillation unit and 50,000bpd hydrocracker. Saudi aramco declined to comment when contacted by the wall street journal. Saudi aramco awards ras tanura clean fuels contracts. It has a crude distillation capacity of 550,000 barrels per day bpd. Close to the source of oil, aramcos ras tanura refinery has been meeting a new type of world oil demand. This new project started in april and is expected to run until september 2020. A9eg5j from alamys library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.
Ras tanura refinery runs successfully the new diesel. The 325,000 bpd crude distillation unit cdu at ras tanura refinery, the kingdoms largest, was shutdown in early december and was restarted a few days ago, traders said. Aramco diesel hydrotreating dht project ras tanura refinery. In gasoline production, for example, the hydrocracker product must be further processed in a catalytic reformer as it has a high naphthene. In addition it has 270,000bpd catalytic reforming equipment. Aramcos ras tanura refinery completes major turnaround. The refinerys capacity was raised from 265,000 bd to 300,000 bd. Place a free ad or find what you are looking for today. Working for saudi aramco at ras tanura refinery where. It is situated on the persian gulf coast in eastern saudi arabia. Ras tanura refinery is surrounded by a heavily guarded security fence, and saudi employees and their dependents may live inside the najmah residential compound which is less heavily guarded. I am really struggling to find out a lot of information on the the school within the. Saudi aramco awarded the engineering, procurement and construction epc deals for the early works and site preparation packages.