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Jubail Project Timeline

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In June 2008 when the founding Shareholders, Saudi Aramco and TOTAL, signed the Shareholders Agreement, SATORP was officially born. The Shareholders immediately went to work pouring their best talent into the Project Management and Corporate teams to start developing this new company. Extensive efforts consuming the time, energy and talent of both Shareholders went into preparing for the next steps of the project, completing the design phase and begin the bidding for all of the Engineering Procurement Contracts (EPC).

By July 2009 all of the EPC contracts had been awarded and the project teams mobilized to their respective package locations all around the world to begin building the various units of the refinery which would eventually be shipped back to Saudi Arabia to be assembled like a colossal puzzle. The Project Management Team is divided into different teams to handle each Package. All Packages report directly up to the Project Directorate under Mr. Daniel Grunemwald, Project Director. The Project Director reports directly to the President & CEO of SATORP.
 
  Units   Contractor

  Package 1: Distillation &Hydrotreating

  Tecnicas Reunidas, Madrid, Spain

  Package 2A: Conversion

  Technip Italy SpA, Rome

  Package 2B: Sulphur/ Amine

  Daelim Industrial Co Ltd, Seoul, Korea

  Package 3: Aromatics

  Samsung Eng Co Ltd,  Seoul, Korea

  Package 4: Coker

  Chiyoda Petrostar/Samsung Eng Co., Yokohama, Japan

  Package 5A: Interconnecting, Utilities

  Technip Italy SpA, Rome

  Package 5B: Plant utilities

  SK E&C, Seoul, Korea

  Package 5C: Auxiliary Utilities

  M.R. Al-Khathhlan, KSA

  Package 6: Refinery Tank Farm

  Rotary Engineering Limited, Singapore

  Package 7: Permanent Infrastructure

  Al Osais, KSA

  Package 8: Pipelines and Off plot Facilities

  GCC, KSA

  Package 9: Port Tank Farm

  Dayim, Punj  Lloyd KSA

  Package 10: Permanent communication

  Sumitomo, KSA
 

While portions of the refinery were under construction across the globe, the in-Kingdom project teams were busy laying the ground work and infrastructure that would one day sustain the entire refinery and the Company’s administrative complex.

 

One by one, each out of Kingdom package is completed and shipped carefully back to Jubail taking the utmost care not to damage even the smallest part. Safety and quality assurance along each step is of the utmost importance for the refinery to operate safely.

During the entire project phase, SATORP’s Operations and Maintenance Engineers were embedded with each package to work closely with the project management teams. This ensures a smoother, safer transition from the completion of the project phase, to start-up & commissioning, and into the steady-state of operations.

From the last quarter of 2010 up through April 2012, the construction activity continues to gain momentum. As activity increases at the Jubail site, the number of construction personnel at the site at the peak of activity will be about 30,000 people. Time is money, so construction continues around the clock on mega projects like these as the push to complete the project on schedule and within budget insistently drives the project and corporate teams forward. The migration of SATORP’s corporate personnel from their temporary offices in Al-Khobar to the newly constructed facilities in Jubail will be done in three phases; the first phase is targeted to begin mid-2011, with the final phase to be completed by mid-2012.

Once all corporate personnel have been relocated to Jubail, the start up of utilities units will immediately commence. The process of starting up the utilities and conducting the process integrity testing takes months to complete. The refinery must pass thousands of incredibly stringent tests before anything but steam is put through the system. Every inch of the refinery is checked and rechecked for any irregularities or problems that would result in damage to the physical assets or functioning of the refinery. If everything is not working to perfection, it will impact both the productivity of the refinery or may end in either injury or loss of lives. Safety is always a priority.

The oil in the first topping unit is scheduled for mid-December, 2012. Following that, all of the different units will come on stream one by one until the refinery is finally in steady-state of operations by mid-fourth quarter 2013.
                   
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