Bidding opens on Yanbu joint venture
The local/US joint venture of Saudi Aramco and ConocoPhillips has formally launched the bidding process for its multi-billion-dollar Yanbu export refinery by inviting international contractors to submit expressions of interest in the project.
Under the proposed bidding schedule, prequalification for the estimated $8,000 million-10,000 million project will take place in April, with invitation to bid documents for the major process packages issued in the first quarter of 2008. The award of contracts is scheduled for the third or fourth quarter of the same year.
The 400,000-barrel-a-day (b/d) refinery will be tendered in four main process packages, each of which will be let on a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction basis:Package 1 covers the construction of a delayed coker unit, and a mercaptan removal unsaturated gas unit with capacity to treat 12,000 b/d of liquefied petroleum gas;Package 2 involves the construction of a crude distillation unit, a vacuum distillation unit, and a saturated gas plant to collect gas and liquid streams and separate them into natural gas liquids and naphtha streams;Package 3 entails the installation of a 177,000 b/d distillate hydrotreater, a continuous catalytic reformer, a naphtha hydrotreater, a benzene extractor unit, and an isomerisation unit;Package 4 calls for the construction of a 124,000-b/d hydrocracker, which will hydrocrack gas oil feedstocks into ultra-low-sulphur diesel.
The decision to move forward with the Yanbu refinery is in contrast to the difficulties over costs which ConocoPhillips is facing at Fujairah, on the east coast of the UAE (see page 9).
The US' KBR is the combined front-end engineering and design and programme management services contractor on the Yanbu refinery (MEED 1:9:06).
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The local/US joint venture of Saudi Aramco and ConocoPhillips has formally launched the bidding process for its multi-billion-dollar Yanbu export refinery by inviting international contractors to submit expressions of interest in the project.
Under the proposed bidding schedule, prequalification for the estimated $8,000 million-10,000 million project will take place in April, with invitation to bid documents for the major process packages issued in the first quarter of 2008. The award of contracts is scheduled for the third or fourth quarter of the same year. The 400,000-barrel-a-day (b/d) refinery will be tendered in four main process packages, each of which will be let on a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction basis:Package 1 covers the construction of a delayed coker unit, and a mercaptan removal unsaturated gas unit with capacity to treat 12,000 b/d of liquefied petroleum gas;Package 2 involves the construction of a crude distillation unit, a vacuum distillation unit, and a saturated gas plant to collect gas and liquid streams and separate them into natural gas liquids and naphtha streams;Package 3 entails the installation of a 177,000 b/d distillate hydrotreater, a continuous catalytic reformer, a naphtha hydrotreater, a benzene extractor unit, and an isomerisation unit;Package 4 calls for the construction of a 124,000-b/d hydrocracker, which will hydrocrack gas oil feedstocks into ultra-low-sulphur diesel. The decision to move forward with the Yanbu refinery is in contrast to the difficulties over costs which ConocoPhillips is facing at Fujairah, on the east coast of the UAE (see page 9). The US' KBR is the combined front-end engineering and design and programme management services contractor on the Yanbu refinery (MEED 1:9:06). www.meed.com/oilandgasThis content is only available to full MEED package subscribers (MEED magazine and MEED.com).
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