JEDDAH: Saudi Aramco's Jizan refinery will be finished in 2015 rather than 2014 as previously announced, the company's downstream operations chief said Tuesday. Khalid Al-Buainain, senior vice president for downstream for Saudi Aramco, was asked whether the 400,000 barrel per day (bpd) facility now under construction would be completed in 2014 as previously announced. “I would say ‘15,” he said. Buainain said the change in completion date was due to Aramaco's management of three major refining projects. We have Jubail in ‘13,” he said on the sidelines of the IHS CERA Week conference. “We have Yanbu in ‘14. Each of the three refineries is slated to have a 400,000 bpd when the projects are complete.
