JAZAN: Saudi Aramco expects to start initial operations of its new 400,000 barrels per day refinery complex in the port city of Jizan in 2017, the CEO told Reuters.
The Jazan refinery is part of a $20 billion plan to develop an industrial city in Jazan in southwestern Saudi Arabia, which would also include a 4,000 MW power plant, a commercial port, and a refinery terminal.
“We expect start up of some of the units especially utilities to take place in 2017, but the final completion would be in 2018 so that is the plan now,” Saudi Aramco CEO Khalid Al-Falih said on the sidelines of an economic conference in Jizan.
“Designing is essentially completing.... The foundation work is already ongoing by some of the construction contractors.”
New Jazan refinery complex to start up in 2017
