Yokogawa control system for Rabigh II project
7 Nov 2012
London - Yokogawa is to supply its Centum VP production control system and the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system for the Rabigh II petrochemical complex.
The Japanese group has also supplied the Rabigh I project, which combined with phases I, is the largest project for which Yokogawa has been selected in the Middle East.
Yokogawa’s input for the Rabigh II project is to be fully executed in Saudi Arabia, at the company facilities in Dhahran Techno-Valley - in line with Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical’s guidance to maximise the Saudi content.
Yokogawa says it has doubled the size of its facilities in the Dhahran Techno-Valley. In addition to engineering and project execution capabilities, the new facility allows Yokogawa to manufacture specific elements of the control system and strengthen its R&D activities.
The Rabigh II project, by expanding the ethane cracker and building a new aromatics complex, will use additional 30 million standard cubic feet per day of ethane and about 3,000 ktpa of naphtha as feedstock to produce a variety of high value-added petrochemical products.
Each plant will be brought on stream as it becomes available for operation, beginning the first half of 2016.
