Sasref Refinery Hydrocracker Set For September Maintenance Shutdown
The Saudi Aramco Shell Refining Company (Sasref) is to shut down a 67,000 b/d hydrocracker at its al-Jubail facility for two weeks in 1Q September for routine maintenance, industry sources were quoted by Reuters as saying on 15 August. The secondary unit takes in straight-run fuel oil as feedstock and cracks it into higher value products such as light and middle distillates. In May, Sasref awarded contracts for the implementation of Phase 2 of the refinery’s Instrumentation Master Plan (IMP – MEES 5 June). The export refinery is a 50/50 joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Shell Saudi Arabia Refining with a production capacity of 305,000 b/d of high quality refined products, including kerosene, naphtha, benzene, fuel oil and LPG (MEES, 31 March 2003).
