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SATORP Amiral project | Source: TotalEnergies

Amiral is a world-scale, fully integrated petrochemical complex being constructed adjacent to and in full integration with the existing SATORP refinery in Jubail. The project is being developed and will be operated by the SATORP joint venture, with an investment of USD 11 billion, making it one of the largest single petrochemical investments in Saudi Arabia. Its strategic objective is to deepen the refinery-to-chemicals integration at the SATORP platform — converting internally produced naphtha, refinery off-gases, and externally supplied ethane and natural gasoline into high-value chemical products.

Scope & Processing Units

The Amiral complex comprises two main packages:

Package 1 — Core Cracker Complex:

• Refinery Off-Gas (ROG) Recovery and Treatment Unit — processing SATORP off-gases as cracker feedstock
• Mixed-Feed Steam Cracker (MFC): capacity of 1,650 KTA ethylene — one of the largest mixed-feed crackers in the Gulf
• 2 × HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene) Units: 500,000 t/year each (total 1,000,000 t/year)
• Butadiene Extraction Unit
• Olefin Extraction Unit
• MTBE Unit
• Butadiene Selective Hydrogenation Unit
• 2^nd Stage Gasoline Hydrogenation Unit

Package 2 — Derivatives Complex:

• Downstream derivatives and specialty chemical plants, drawing on cracker output, with a further anticipated downstream investment of approximately USD 4 billion by third-party investors

Supporting Infrastructure:

• Utilities, interconnection and flare systems (Package 4)
• Tank farm (Package 5A)
• Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant — developed by TAQA and JERA Co., Inc., with construction commenced in 2024 and operations planned for 2027

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Key Production Outputs

Project Timeline

Strategic Context

Amiral supports Saudi Aramco's broader liquids-to-chemicals (L2C) strategy — maximizing the chemical value extracted from each barrel of crude. The Amiral derivatives complex will also act as a feedstock hub for a cluster of downstream specialty chemical and polymer plants to be developed by third-party investors in Jubail Industrial City 2, creating a cascading petrochemical ecosystem.