Saudi Aramco, ConocoPhillips, and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) gathered in Houston recently to sign a front-end engineering contract for start of construction of a 400,000 b/d refinery in Yanbu'.
By OGJ editors HOUSTON, Aug. 24 -- Saudi Aramco, ConocoPhillips, and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) gathered in Houston recently to sign a front-end engineering contract for start of construction of a 400,000 b/d refinery in Yanbu'.
The Yanbu' export refinery, slated for completion in 2011, will process Arabian heavy crude oil into motor fuels and other products for US and European markets. Its twin-sister plant in Jubail, a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Total SA, will primarily serve the Far East market.
Both refineries will be sited near existing Saudi Aramco facilities.
