By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 17 -- Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co. (PetroRabigh) has let an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract to two Foster Wheeler Ltd. subsidiaries for the utilities and offsites at its refining and petrochemical complex under development in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia (OGJ, Aug. 8, 2005, Newsletter).
PetroRabigh is a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd.
Foster Wheeler will perform detailed design, procurement, and management of the construction contractors for the utilities and offsite facilities, including all interconnecting process and utility piping for the complex; flare, water, air, and power systems; instrumentation and control rooms; main electrical distribution substations, firewater systems, blending and metering; and refurbishment and change in duty of existing tankage and roads. The contract value wasn't disclosed.
The project will upgrade Saudi Aramco's 400,000 b/cd Rabigh refinery to raise output of transportation fuel and make it the basis of a complex producing a total of 2.4 million tonnes/year of petrochemical solids and liquids, along with large volumes of gasoline and other products.
A new high-olefins fluid catalytic cracker complex will be integrated with a world-scale, ethane-based cracker to produce 1.5 million tonnes/year of ethylene, 900,000 tonnes/year of propylene, 60,000 b/d of gasoline, and other products.
Downstream units will convert all of the olefin production into products such as linear low-density polyethylene, high-density polyethylene, polypropylene, propylene oxide, and monoethylene glycol.
The project is scheduled for completion in 2008.
