VOL. XLV

No 33

19-August-2002

SAUDI ARABIA

Yanbu' Refinery Back To Full Production AfterRepairs To CCR Unit

Full production resumed at the365,000 b/d Saudi Aramco/ExxonMobil (Samref) oil refinery at Yanbu' on12 August with the restarting of the 46,000 b/d continuous catalytic reformer(CCR) unit. The reformer, which converts naphtha to gasoline, was shut down on26 July because of mechanical problems. Operations in some other units,including the crude distillation unit, were also affected, leading...