Aramco lets contract for Riyadh refinery modernization

Saudi Aramco has let a contract to Technip Energies to modernize sulfur recovery operations at its 130,000-b/d Riyadh refinery in central Saudi Arabia.

As part of the contract, Technip Energies will install three new tail gas treatment (TGT) units to improve performance of the refinery’s existing three sulfur recovery units (SRU), the service provider said on Jan. 24.

The project, which Technip Energies will execute locally using in-Kingdom resources and infrastructure, aims to ensure the refinery’s compliance with more stringent regulations for sulfur-dioxide emissions by improving recovery efficiency of the SRUs to more than 99.9%.

Technip Energies—which designed and built the refinery’s existing SRUs in the early 2000s—disclosed neither the value of the contract nor capacities of new TGTs.