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MIDDLE EAST about 700 specialized personnel on site as the project goes into the commissioning phase .
The company will continue to have significant numbers in Jubail as part of the integrated project management team assisting Dow and Aramco during the final stages of the project , says Ibrahim . “ We have been engaged on that project for five or six years .” Sadara has scored a lot of superlatives , not least clocking up 80 million construction man-hours without a Lost Time Incident ( LTI ). That achievement had nothing to do with luck , he insists . The KBR onsite team performed hundreds of joint safety walkthroughs with the project management team and their construction contractors .
The same culture is applied in the other major projects in the region , such as the Jazan refinery and terminal , again for Saudi Aramco . In 2012 KBR was awarded a contract for FEED and PMS services to develop the process design , layout , integration and optimization of the facility , develop equipment and material specifications , the preparation of EPC bid packages and the development of a construction estimate for the refinery .
Other major projects include the Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Co . ( Yasref ), a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and China Petrochemical Corporation ( Sinopec ). It ’ s a refinery with the capacity to process 400,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) of Arabian Heavy crude and produce 90,000 bpd of gasoline , 263,000 bpd of ultra-low-
A KBR project at In Salah , Algeria
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