Yasref lets contract for Yanbu refinery

Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Co. Ltd. (Yasref)—a joint venture of Saudi Aramco 62.5% and China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) 37.5%—has let a contract to the Saudi Arabian subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Dallas, to deliver long-term general engineering services (GES) to help optimize production at its 400,000-b/d refinery along the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu Industrial City.

As part of the 3-year GES contract, Jacobs ZATE will provide a range of services, from basic engineering to front-end engineering design, detailed design, procurement through to construction management, commissioning support, and handover for a portfolio of Yasref’s capital expenditure projects for the Yanbu refinery, Jacobs said.

The service provider disclosed neither a value of the GES contract nor further details regarding the specific projects to be executed as part of the agreement.

Commissioned in 2014, the Yasref refinery processes Arabian Heavy crude oil to produce transportation fuels, including ultralow-sulfur diesel and low-sulfur gasoline (OGJ Online, Oct. 13, 2016).

Alongside its 400,000-b/d crude distillation unit, the refinery includes the following major processing unit capacities:

• Delayed coking, 114,000 b/d.

• Hydrocracking, 124,000 b/d.

• Diesel hydrotreating, 177,000 b/d.

• Naphtha hydrotreating, 84,000 b/d.

• Continuous catalytic reforming, 85,000 b/d.

• Isomerization, 20,000 b/d.

• Benzene extraction, 20,000 b/d.

• Hydrogen generation, 263 MMcfd.

• Sulfur recovery, 1,200 tonnes/day.

Contact Robert Brelsford at [email protected].