Saudi Aramco Downstream Operations

A Project Submitted
in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Subject of
Supply Chain

by
Jawad Aziz
Waleed Khalid

Submitted To
Prof. Imran Abbasi
 Table Of Content

Preface 1

Introduction 3

Vision 4

Mission 4

Operations 4

Exploration

Refining and chemicals 4

Refinery Operations 5

References 6
Introduction
Saudi Aramco officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, most popularly known just

as Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), is a Saudi

Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran. Saudi

Aramco's market value has been estimated at between $2 trillion and $10 trillion,

making it the most valuable company in the world It is one of the largest companies

in the world by revenue.

Saudi Aramco has both the world's second-largest proven crude oil reserves, at more

than 260 billion barrels and second-largest daily oil production.

Headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco operates the world's largest

single hydrocarbon network, the Master Gas System. Its 2013 crude oil production

total was 3.4 billion barrels (540,000,000 m3), and it manages over one hundred oil

and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, including 288.4 trillion standard cubic feet

(scf) of natural gas reserves. Saudi Aramco operates the Ghawar Field, the world's

largest onshore oil field, and the Safaniya Field, the world's largest offshore oil field
Vision

We cherish the values and the successful business practices that have made us one of

the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies. But we are even

prouder of the opportunities we enable for others.

Mission

To support the Saudi Aramco enterprise by providing optimal services and

maximizing value

Operations:
Saudi Aramco is headquartered in Dhahran, but its operations span the globe it

include

exploration

production

refining

chemicals

distribution

marketing.

All these activities of the company are monitored by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of

Petroleum and Mineral Resources together with the Supreme Council for Petroleum

and Minerals. However, the ministry has much more responsibility in this regard than

the council

Exploration:
A significant portion of the Saudi Aramco workforce consists
of geophysicists and geologists. Saudi Aramco has been exploring for oil and gas
reservoirs since 1982. Most of this process takes place at the Exploration and
Petroleum Engineering Center Originally, Saudi Aramco used Cray Supercomputers
in its EXPEC Computer Center to assist in processing the colossal quantity of
dataobtained during exploration and in 2001, ECC decided to use Linux clusters as a
replacement for the decommissioned Cray systems. ECC installed a
new supercomputing system in late 2009 with a disk storage capacity of
1,050 terabytes (i.e, exceeding one petabyte), the largest storage installation in Saudi
Aramco's history to support its exploration in the frontier areas and the Red Sea.

Refining and chemicals:

While the company did not originally plan on refining oil, the Saudi government
wished to have only one company dealing with oil production. Therefore, on 1 July
1993, the government issued a royal decree merging Saudi Aramco with Samarec, the
country's oil refining company.

List of refineries
List of domestic refineries:[31]

 Jeddah Refinery (78,000 bbl/d

 Ras Tanura Refinery (550,000 bbl/d
 Riyadh Refinery (126,000 bbl/d
 Yanbu Refinery (245,000 bbl/d

List of international refining ventures

 ujian Refining and Petrochemical Co. (FRPC), People's Republic of China

 Sinopec SenMei (Fujian) Petroleum Co. Ltd. (SSPC), People's Republic of China
 Motiva Enterprises LLC, United States
 Showa Shell, Japan
 S-Oil, Republic of Korea
 Saudi Refining Inc., United States
Refinery Operations
References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco#History

[2] www.aramcooverseas.com