(Arabian oil and gas) -- Axens technologies were selected by Saudi Aramco for its Jazan Refinery and Terminal Project, the French firm said in a statement. The refinery, scheduled to be commissioned in December 2016, will have a capacity of 400,000 bpd. ⌠The units under Axens design include a naphtha hydrotreating for feedstock purification, Aromizing CCR reforming for aromatics production and C5/C6 isomerization unit to provide a high octane component for the gasoline pool, Axens said in a statement.
Axens also recently won the contract to provide Misan refinery in Iraq with basic engineering design and licensed technologies within the greenfield refinery development.