Al Ruwais Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Takreer
• Website: http://www.takreer.com/
• Location: 240 kilometers west of Abu Dhabi City
• Capacity: 20.0 million tons/annum & 400,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A refining complex that consists of three trains, one a hydrocracking refinery and the other two, condensate splitters

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation - 120,000
• Two Condensate Splitters (2x140,000 bpd)
• Vacuum Unit (46,000 bpd)
• Unibon Unit/Hydro cracker (27,000 bpd)
• Naphtha Hydrodesulphurization (34,350 bpd)
• Catalytic Reformer (19,150 bpd)
• Kerosene Hydrotreater (20,780 bpd)
• Gas Oil Hydrodesulphurization (21,850 bpsd)
• Hydrogen Plant (60,000 Nm3/hr)
• Two Sulphur Recovery Plants (44/49 tons per day)
• Two Naphtha Stabilizers (2x27,500 bpd):
• Two Kerosene Sweetening Units (2x52,000 bpd)

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• The condensate splitters are designed to process condensate from the On-shore Gas Development and Asab Gas Development fields.

Products Produced

• Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Premium Unleaded Gasoline (98 Octane), Special Unleaded Gasoline (95 Octane), Naphtha grades, Jet-A1 and Kerosene grades, Gas Oil grades, Straight run Residue, Bunker grades 180 and 380 cst and Granulated Sulphur

Ongoing Projects

• For details see Ruwais Refinery Project
• The company will raise its refining capacity at the site by 400,000 barrels a day (b/d), by constructing the new refinery to operate alongside the existing 417,000-b/d facility.
• Main Contractors: Axens, Shaw, GS Engineering and Construction, Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd., Daewoo Engineering '&' Construction
• The new facility will utilize a wide range of UOP technologies for the production of clean, low sulfur distillate and gasoline.

Other Information

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History

• 1982 - Refinery Commissioned with capacity of 120,000 bpd
• 1985 - Hydrocracker complex started
• 1991 - Hydrocracker expanded
• 1996 - Vacuum Column expansion completed
• 1999 - Refinery expanded with additional 140,000 bpd CDU
• 2000 - Refinery expanded with additional 140,000 bpd CDU

Relevant Links

• Saipem, Major Projects
• Refinery Webpage

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