VOL. XXXV

NO. 43

27-JULY-1992

Saudi Arabia

Upgrading of Ras Tanura Refinery Gets Underway

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) is making progress with itsplans to upgrade its Ras Tanura refinery, as part of the Kingdom's 10-year planto upgrade and modernize existing refineries (MEES, 19 August 1991). Therefinery is currently producing 300,000 b/d, having had to reduce its throughputfrom the maximum capacity of 530,000 b/d as a result of the fire which destroyeda crude distillation unit in...