VOL. XLIII

No. 16

17-April-2000

SAUDI ARABIA

Sasref Refinery Expansion Completed

The Saudi Aramco Shell Refining Company (Sasref) has announced that trials are under way on upgrade work carried out at its 310,000 b/d plant at Jubail. In December 1997 Sasref awarded a $70mn contract to Foster Wheeler Italiana (the Italian subsidiary of Foster Wheeler of the US) to carry out the work (MEES, 5 January 1998). Under the contract, Foster Wheeler Italiana installed a 5,650 ton/day thermal cracking unit,...