Yokogawa receives record project order

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 refi ning and petrochemical complexes in Saudi Arabia. The project is under the management of the Rabigh Refi ning & Petrochemical Company (PETRORabigh), a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical. The contract was formally concluded by Yokogawa Engineering Asia, the wholly owned Yokogawa subsidiary based in Singapore, and isYokogawa’s largest ever order for a single project.

In the Rabigh Project, which is slated for completion in the second half of 2008, PETRORabigh is enhancing an existing oil refi nery at Rabigh on the Red Sea coast and constructing a new petrochemical complex that will annually produce 1.3 million tons of ethylene and 2.4 million tons of petrochemical derivatives such as polyethylene and polypropylene. The new complex will be fully integrated with the existing refi nery, which is currently undergoing an upgrade to a more sophisticated confi guration.

This order for the Rabigh Project is for the upgrade of the control systems at the existing refi nery 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 Instrumented System, Plant Resource Manager (PRM), DPharp EJA Pressure/ Differential Pressure Transmitter, and OmegaLand Integrated Dynamic Simulation Environment.