Yokogawa as plant control system supplier for PETRORabigh Project
13 Feb '07
2 min read
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has received an order to supply plant control systems for the Rabigh Project, which is constructing one of the world's largest integrated refining and petrochemical complexes in Saudi Arabia.
This project is under the management of the Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Company (PETRORabigh), a joint venture between the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd (Sumitomo Chemical).
Following the informal appointment of Yokogawa as the plant control system supplier for this project, the contract was formally concluded by Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte Ltd, a wholly owned Yokogawa subsidiary.
In the Rabigh Project, which is slated for completion in the second half of 2008, PETRORabigh is enhancing an existing oil refinery at Rabigh on the Red Sea coast and constructing a new petrochemical complex that will annually produce 1.3 million tons of 0-lene and 2.4 million tons of petrochemical derivatives such as polyethylene and polypropylene.
The new complex will be fully integrated with the existing refinery, which is currently undergoing an upgrade to a more sophisticated configuration. This order for the Rabigh Project is for the upgrade of the control systems at the existing refinery and to provide control systems for the petrochemical plants that are being constructed.
The systems include the CENTUM CS3000 R3 Integrated Production Control System, ProSafe-RS Safety InstrumentedSystem, Plant Resource Manager (PRM), DPharp EJA Pressure/Differential Pressure Transmitter, and OmegaLand Integrated Dynamic Simulation Environment. This last product is manufactured by our subsidiary, Omega Simulation Co Ltd. Delivery is scheduled for September 2007.
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