Satorp’s Jubail refinery enters planned maintenance
Saudi Aramco Total Refinery & Petrochemicals Co. (Satorp) will perform scheduled maintenance activities beginning on Jan. 13 at Train 2 of its 440,000 b/d full-conversion refinery complex at Jubail on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast.
During the turnaround, all processing units of the refinery’s Train 1 will continue to operate normally, Satorp subsidiary Arabian Aramco Total Services Co. (AATSC) said in a filing to the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul).
Without disclosing specific details regarding the scope of work to be carried out during the maintenance period, AATSC said the majority of units at Train 2 will be back in operation by Feb. 29.
In early 2019, Satorp let a contract to KBR Inc. and subcontractor Wison Engineering Services Co. Ltd. to deliver debottlenecking services at the Jubail refinery’s Train 2 in a project that, once completed, is slated to increase the refinery’s original throughput capacity by 15% (OGJ Online, Feb. 4, 2019).
The debottlenecking project was scheduled to be executed during a major refinery turnaround in 2020, with completion targeted for August 2020, KBR said at the time of the contract award.
Robert Brelsford | Downstream Editor
Robert Brelsford joined Oil & Gas Journal in October 2013 as downstream technology editor after 8 years as a crude oil price and news reporter on spot crude transactions at the US Gulf Coast, West Coast, Canadian, and Latin American markets. He holds a BA (2000) in English from Rice University and an MS (2003) in education and social policy from Northwestern University.
