Bapco Sitrah Refinery

The refinery is a large medium complexity plant, that processes Domestic & Arab Light Crude Oil
The crude is supplied via an undersea pipeline from Saudia Arabia.
Majority of the products are exported
The base oil plant is one of the largest of its kind in the world with an annual capacity of 400,000 tonnes

About one-sixth of this crude originates from Bahrain Field;
The remainder is pumped from Saudi Arabia via the Saudi Arabia Bahrain AB-4 Crude Oil Pipeline from the Abqaiq Oil Processing Plant

The Bapco Sitrah Refinery Upgrade and Expansion Project aims at enhancing the refinery configuration, by increasing the throughput from 267,000 to 360,000 barrel per day as well as improving the product slate

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1936 - The Bahrain Refinery - with a capacity of 10,000 barrels per day - opened
1968 - Bahrain Refinery expansion programme completed with 250,000 barrel-a-day capacity
1997 - The Bahrain Government assumes 100% ownership of the Bahrain Refinery
2001 - Kerosene Merox units commissioned as part of the Refinery Modernisation Plan
2004 - JGC awarded Hydrocracker contract
2005 - Foster Wheeler Awarded refinery gas desulfurization (RGD) project
2007 - Start-up of Low Sulphur Diesel Production complex, constructed by JGC.
2008 - BAPCO established a joint venture with Finland’s Neste Oil Corporation to build a high-quality lubricant base oils plant
2013 - Technip awarded SRU contract

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