Saudi Aramco’s 400,000 b/d Jazan refinery on the Red Sea coast is currently offline for scheduled maintenance according to trading sources. The refinery has been offline since the beginning of January for maintenance which is planned to last 40 days. Aramco declined to comment on the units on which work is being undertaken.
Jazan is wholly owned by Saudi Aramco and is the kingdom’s newest refinery having started up in 2021 (MEES, 22 January 2021). It is unique as the only Saudi refinery not connected to Aramco’s crude oil pipeline network and as a result has to receive its crude oil feedstock via seaborne tankers. It is positioned on the southern Red Sea coast around 60km from the Yemen border. (CONTINUED - 668 WORDS)
