Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) has awarded Technip to expand its Ali Jebel refinery by 70,000 bbl/d. The main package of the project will add a new condensate processing train to the existing facility, expanding its daily capacity to 210,000 bbl/d, up from its existing current 140,000 bbl/d.
Additional processing units will also be added. These include a new LPG/naphta hydrotreater, an isomerisation unit, kerosene hydrotreater, and a diesel hydrotreater. These units will ensure that the refinery’s fuel products, which include gasoline, jet fuel and diesel, are capable of meeting expanding domestic fuel demand, including strong demand from the aviation sector, as well as for export purposes. The new unit will manufacture products for the local market meeting stringent Euro 5 standards.
The US$1bn project is expected to commence commercial production in autumn 2019.
The Jebel Ali refinery was commissioned in 1999 with a capacity of 120,000 bbl/d and later expanded to 140,000 bbl/d after a debottlenecking project in 2012.