DAMMAM, 29 January 2007 — Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Co. (SASREF) and ABB Lummus, a Dutch company that focuses on the oil and gas, petroleum refining and petrochemical process industries, have signed a contract for front-end engineering development of SASREF’s ultra-low sulfur diesel project at its headquarters in the Jubail Industrial City yesterday.
SASREF’s President Muhammad Al-Omair signed the contract with Foeke Kolff, president-director of Lummus Global and Tareq Kawash, general manager of Lummus Saudi Arabia.
The engineering work will be carried out in ABB Lummus offices in The Hague and Lummus Ali Reza offices in Alkhobar will support activities in the Kingdom.
At the same time, SASREF appointed Shell Global Solutions to provide the project management support during this phase of the project development.
The new unit is planned for the pre-construction work in the second half of 2007 and start operations in 2009.
Muhammad Al-Omair said “the investment in this project is to reduce the sulfur content of the diesel fuel manufactured in SASREF by installing an ultra-low sulfur gas oil unit and revamping the existing gas oil de-sulfurizer to meet the new diesel specification.”
SASREF’s president added that after completion of the project, SASREF’s capacity of ultra-low sulfur diesel will be 11,600 tons per day.
This will also make SASREF the first producer of the ULSD of 10ppm in the Kingdom.