SAUDI ARABIA - The Riyadh Refinery.A project to upgrade this 135,000 b/d refinery, put on hold after Samarec's absorption by 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. in 1993, was revived in January 1997 when the company contracted SNC SNC St Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin) SNC Sistema Nervioso Central SNC Société en Nom Collectif (French: Partnership) SNC Système Nerveux Central (French: central nervous system) Lavalin Int'l of Canada as project manager. The main contract was awarded in August 1997 to McConnell Dowell of New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and Petrocon of the US. They were to build a new control system to replace the existing one. The contract was part of a plan to integrate the control systems of the domestic refineries of Riyadh, Yanbu' and Jeddah. The plant will have an isomerisation unit by 2001, together with a naphtha naphtha (năp`thə, năf`–), term usually restricted to a class of colorless, volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures. desulphurisation unit and a distillate dis·til·late n. A liquid condensed from vapor in distillation. distillate a product of distillation. desulphurisation facility. The refinery came on stream in 1975 with a capacity of 15,000 b/d. It was raised to 20,000 b/d in 1977. Work began in 1977 to raise the capacity to 135,000 b/d. This was completed in 1981. The plant processes Khurais crude pumped through a 140 km pipeline. During the Gulf crisis, in the fourth quarter of 1990, its throughput was raised to 140,000 b/d. |
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