Ra's Tanura
Coordinates: 26 ° 38 ' N , 50 ° 10' E
Ra's Tanura ( Arabic رأس تنورة, DMG Raʾs Tanūra ; International Ras Tanura, also Ras Tannura ) is a place in the province of al-Sharqiyah from Saudi Arabia on a peninsula in the Arabian Gulf on which a major oil-loading terminal and a large oil refinery of Saudi Aramco and also Nadschmah called residential area for whose employees are located.
geography
The peninsula, which lies between Jubail in the north and Dammam in the south and extends in a south-east direction, is approx. 21 km long and in the northern part no more than 6 km wide. It ends in an approximately 7.5 km long headland with a maximum width of 1 km. The humidity is very high, the temperatures can reach 50 ° C and more in summer .
Oil loading terminal
Ras Tanura also stands for the world's largest oil loading terminal operated by Saudi Aramco. It consists of a large number of oil tanks on the south end of the peninsula and various jetties on the east side of the headland, namely the South Pier and the North Pier and the 4 Sea Islands. The now only as an investor for tractors serving South Pier was used by the former Aramco as oil-loading terminal for the 1939th The North Pier , built around 880 m from the coast, is 870 m long and approx. 33 m wide. It has 6 to 11 berths for tankers , which are 12 to 15 m deep at low tide. About 1.6 km northeast of the coast there is a 1.7 km long row of 4 Sea Islands called jetties with pumping stations in the open sea at a water depth of 26 m. Sea Island No. 1 was abandoned in 1967; at stations No. 2, 3 and 4, 6 tankers can be loaded with up to 500,000 DWT ( ULCC ) at the same time. Ras Tanura has a total loading capacity of 6 million bpd ( barrels per day). In 1961 a meteorite struck the area of the South Pier , which was named after the place: Ras Tanura .
Petroleum refinery, petrochemical industrial plant
Further inland on the peninsula is an oil refinery , also operated by Saudi Aramco , which, with a capacity of 550,000 bpd, is one of the largest facilities in the Middle East.
Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical signed a letter of intent on May 12, 2007 to jointly build the Ras Tanura Integrated Petrochemical Complex, one of the world's largest petrochemical industrial plants for the production of various chemicals, with an estimated investment of USD 20 billion. The systems were originally supposed to be completed by 2013 and will employ 4,000 people in the future. In April 2009, however, a postponement of the project was announced.
Residential complex
Inland joins the fenced residential complex or small town (compound) of the Saudi Aramco, also known as Najmah , one of the 4 complexes built in 1940 by the then Aramco in Saudi Arabia. Originally it served the largely American employees of Aramco, today it has developed into a multiethnic community in which only a few American and British foreigners live together with employees from various countries, but who all use English as their common language. In addition to residential buildings, the complex also has numerous shops and community facilities, including a theater, bowling alley, golf course and the beach. The residential complex is also under constant surveillance, although not as heavily as the refinery and terminal.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our vision on saudiaramco.com, accessed March 7, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Update 1 - Aramco delays Ras Tanura refinery expansion-sources on reuters.com, accessed March 7, 2014.
- ↑ news / newsdesk / L27886601.htm What we do on alertnet.org, accessed March 7, 2014.
- ↑ Ras Tanura petrochemical site continues to grow on kunststoffweb.de, accessed on March 7, 2014.
- ^ Dow-Aramco Integrated Petrochemical Complex, Jubail Industrial City 2, Saudi Arabia at chemicals-technology.com, accessed March 7, 2014.