Saudi Aramco :: Refining & Distribution

Refining
Supply & Distribution
Operations Coordination Center
Power Network
Terminals
Technology

Refining, Supply and Distribution Overview

Saudi Aramco's responsibilities expanded greatly on July 1, 1993, when a Royal Decree merged into the company all of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil refineries and distribution and marketing operations that were operated by the Petromin marketing and refining project known as Samarec. Under the same decree, Saudi Aramco assumed Petromin's 50-percent interests in three domestic joint-venture refineries.

Today, Saudi Aramco's refining interests, including its domestic refineries and its joint-venture and shareholder interests in other domestic and international refineries in the United States and the Far East, place the company in the top rank of world refiners.

Saudi Aramco Refining
World-class domestic refineries stretching from the Arabian Gulf to the Red Sea maintain a reliable supply of more than a million barrels per day of products to meet the needs of domestic and international markets.

Supply and Distribution
A broad network of bulk plants and air-fueling units in the Kingdom supplies thousands of bulk customers with products ranging from gasoline and jet fuel to fuel oil and liquefied petroleum gas.

Terminals
Mammoth tank farms and shipping terminals supply crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products to customers around the globe. Every year, more than 3,000 tankers call at Ras Tanura and Ju'aymah on the Arabian Gulf, and at Yanbu', Jiddah and Rabigh on the Red Sea.

Operations Coordination Center
OCC is the hub of oil, gas, electricity and refined products management, optimizing hydrocarbon system capacities and inventories to deliver quality products to the customer at the right time and place.

Electric Power Network
An extensive electrical power generation, transmission and distribution network supports Saudi Aramco's industrial operations in the Kingdom and sustains their continual growth.

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