Saudi Aramco and Total Select Axens For Jubail Export Refinery Complex

摘要

Jubail-Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) and Total have awarded a design package to Axens for its new "world class" 400,000-b/d full conversion refinery being built in Jubail, Saudi Arabia (PCN, 19 May 08, p 1). Axens said it and its alliance partners will design a Para-max aromatics complex to produce 700,000 t/y of paraxylene and 143,000 t/y of benzene, as well as a 32,000 b/d vacuum gas oil fluid catalytic cracker. The refinery and petrochemicals complex is expected to start up in 2012.