SPIE Oil & Gas wins commissioning, start-up contract for Petro Rabigh II

SPIE Oil & Gas Services said its subsidiary, SPIE Oil & Gas Services Saudi LLC, has been awarded the contract for commissioning and start-up services for the expansion of Petro Rabigh refining and petrochemical complex (Petro Rabigh II).

Petro Rabigh is a joint venture between Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) and the Japan-based Sumitomo Chemical.

The contract is a comprehensive offer for the commissioning and start-up of naphtha, aromatics and cumene phenol units, and for a refining and petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia, the company said in a statement.

The company didn’t mention a value for the deal.

“This project is planned for a minimum period of one year with hundreds of specialists in various disciplines inherent in the mentioned units,” the statement said.

Petro Rabigh II consists of the expansion of the existing ethane cracker, the construction of an aromatic complex and an ethylene plant. It will produce an additional 30 million cubic feet a day of ethane, three million tons of naphtha and 300,000 tons of ethylene per year, which will be used as raw materials to produce a variety of petrochemical products, the statement said.

The total investment of the project is estimated about $8 billion, and is expected to generate about 1,200 direct jobs.