KBR gets contract from Luberef

KBR, heaquartered in Houston, Texas, has won a contract to provide technology licensing and basic engineering services to the Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Co. (Luberef) for the expansion of the company’s Yanbu Refinery facility, located in a major Red Sea port in the Al Madinah province of western Saudi Arabia. Yanbu is approximately 350 kilometers north of Jeddah. The project will include providing KBR’s proprietary solvent deasphalting (SDA) technology ROSE. Luberef’s propane deasphalting (PDA) plant is to be refurbished and the capacity of the plant almost doubled. The refurbished plant will be changed over to KBR’s ROSE technology, which will enable Lubereft to boost is production of bright stock and other by-products. The current PDA unit in Yanbu is based on conventional solvent deasphating (SDA) technology. (March 11, 2011)