VOL. XXXNO. 220-OCTOBER-1986

Aramco Completes Distillation Unit for Ras Tanura Refinery

The Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) announced last week that it hascompleted the construction of a new 250,000-b/d crude distillation unit at itsRas Tanura refinery. The new unit, which is part of the refinery's modernizationproject launched in 1984, will replace four smaller crude units (two of 90,000b/d and two of 15,000 b/d), some of which were installed in the 1950s (MEES, 12March 1984). The new...