SAUDI ARABIA - Oil Refining Sector Upgraded.Most of Saudi Aramco's seven oil refineries This is a list of oil refineries. The Oil and Gas Journal also publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. in the kingdom have been upgraded to produce premium fuels. Some of them are being expanded. Their capacity at present is over 1.6m b/d and will reach almost 2.2m b/d by end-2003. A further expansion would depend on foreign investment, as this sector now is open to majors that could proposed feasible ventures. They may bring the total capacity to 2.65-3m b/d by 2007 which would make Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. the biggest export refiner re·fine v. re·fined, re·fin·ing, re·fines v.tr. 1. To reduce to a pure state; purify. 2. To remove by purifying. 3. in the world. Most of the refineries have been producing unleaded gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by and high quality gasoil since the beginning of 2001. Imports of gasoline and gasoil have been stopped. Domestic gasoline consumption has risen rapidly in recent years, despite an increase in domestic oil prices since early 1995. Annual gasoline consumption averages over almost 500,000 b/d. Consumption of diesel has been growing by 5% per annum Per annum Yearly. in recent years (see DT No. 16). Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco, the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia, is the largest oil corporation in the world and the world's largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. restructed the local refining refining, any of various processes for separating impurities from crude or semifinished materials. It includes the finer processes of metallurgy, the fractional distillation of petroleum into its commercial products, and the purifying of cane, beet, and maple sugar and distribution system at the end of 2000 and called it Refining, Supply and Distribution Sector. This now consists of three refining, supply and distribution departments. The Eastern Department has the Ras Tanura Ras Tanura (more accurately Ra's Tannūrah, Arabic: رأس تنورة meaning "top/head of the barbecue spit") is a city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia located on a peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf. refinery plus the operating, mainte-nance and engineering units, the oil supply planning and administration department, and the local marketing and technical support department. The Central Department has the Riyadh refinery and related distribution. The Western Department has the Rabigh, Yanbu' and Jeddah refineries and a related distribution unit. There are around 20 bulk storage plants and 14 jet fuelling stations in various parts of the kingdom. Some tanker lorries have to travel thousands of kilometres. To improve the infrastructure, Saudi Aramco has invested in a multi-product pipeline between the Eastern Province, Riyadh and Qassim and a similar pipeline linking Jeddah to the Yanbu' and Rabigh refineries.
THE SAUDI OIL REFINING CAPACITY ('000 b/d)
Area Ownership 2001 2002/03
Ras Tanura Saudi Aramco 300 500
Rabigh Saudi Aramco 325 475
Yanbu' Saudi Aramco 170 170
Riyadh Saudi Aramco 135 135
Jeddah Saudi Aramco 45 95
Khafji Arabian Oil Co. 30 30
Yanbu' S. Aramco/Mobil 360 420
Jubail S. Aramco/Shell 330 350
Total 1,695 2,175
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