Rabigh Refinery
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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Petro Rabigh (Saudi Aramco & Sumitomo)
  • Website: http://www.petrorabigh.com/
  • Location: on the Red Sea Coast, Saudi Arabia
  • Capacity: 20 million tons/annum & 400,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

Brief Description

  • A large refinery, with high complexity and integrated petrochemicals

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Distillation Unit: 204,000 BPSD.
  • VGO Hydrotreater: 120,000 BPSD (Licensor:AXENS).
  • Hydrogen Production: 73 MMSCFD.
  • HDS: 62,000 BPSD.
  • C4 Alkylation Unit: 22,611 BPSD (Licensor: STRATCO)
  • C4 Isomerization Unit: 22,900 BPSD (Licensor: AXENS)
  • Sulphuric Acid Plant: 160 tpd (Licensor:MONSANTO)
  • Sulphur Recovery Unit: 552 tpd3 (Licensor: JACOBS)
  • Sour Water Strippers: 318,417 kg/h.
  • Amine Regeneration Units: 533 Sm3/h

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The refinery is supplied with local Saudi Crude

Products Produced

  • LPG, Naphtha, Gasoline, Gas Oil, Fuel Oil, Kerosene

Ongoing Projects

  • -

Other Information

  • The refinery was originally a topping refinery owned by Saudi Aramco
  • Tecnicas Reunidas had a LSTK Contract for Engineering, Procurement and Construction for the refinery upgrade

History

  • 1990 - Refinery commissioned with 325,000 bpd capacity
  • 2005 - Petro Rabigh JV formed
  • 2008 - IPO completed
  • 2009 - New units come onstream

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