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Saudis foil Houthi attack on Jazan
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YeMeN’S Houthis said this week that they had attacked and hit an oil facility in the southern Saudi Arabian city of Jazan.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Arabian-led coali- tion said that it had intercepted and destroyed four missiles and six explosive drones that had been launched by Houthi forces, without saying whether any of the projectiles had hit their target.
Jazan, which is around 60 km from the Yemen border, is home to a 400,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery owned by Saudi Aramco, which is expected to reach capacity within the next few months.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said: “With many drones our armed forces tar- geted military aircraft, pilot accommodation and Patriot systems in Khamis Mushait, and other military targets at Abha, Jizan and Najran airports.”
He added: “Additionally, the giant oil facil- ity in the Jazan industrial zone. e strike was accurate.”
Jazan has been the source of numerous head- aches for Aramco.
In the company’s Annual Report, which was released earlier this year, it noted: “Saudi Aramco recognised an impairment of SAR13,646mn [$3.6bn] for the year ended December 31, 2016 primarily related to the Jazan integrated petro- chemical re nery under construction and two
existing domestic re neries.”
Delays were caused when the decision was
taken to move the under-construction re nery to make way for new export facilities.
Jazan will have a capacity to produce 209,900 bpd of ultra-low sulphur diesel, 71,400 bpd of 91 RON and 95 RON gasoline, 48,500 bpd of high-sulphur fuel oil and 6,700 bpd of LPG, according to Aramco.
Also located within the ‘economic City’ is the Jazan Integrated Gas Combined-Cycle (IGCC) plant, for which Aramco established the $8bn Jazan Power JV last year to serve the re nery. e JV is 46% owned by Air Products, 25% by ACWA Power, 20% by Saudi Aramco and 9% by Air Products Qudra.
The private partners are carrying out a design-build contract awarded in 2015 covering the air separation unit and oxygen supply facility – at capacity of 20,000 tonnes per day of oxygen and 55,000 tpd of nitrogen billed as the world’s largest industrial gases complex – at the 4,000- MW plant.
e remainder of the IGCC project is being executed on an ePC basis – with Italy’s Saipem, China’s SePCO and Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas winning the four main packages in 2014. e new three-way JV will operate the gasi cation and power assets for 25 years from completion, which is scheduled next year.
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