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Ras Tanura Refinery: A Case Study

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Linear programming includes those models and techniques of mathematical programming that helps to get higher profit with lower budget. These strategies have been adopted by the great oil refineries of the whole world and Ras Tanura is one of them. The Linear programming strategies are good enough for one industry to adopt them. In the context of refineries and industries of oil, Linear Programming Model is known as the model of refinery which represents all unit yields of refinery, its consumption, its unit capacities. It also includes operations including product blending operations of refinery (Speight, 2002). The potential benefits of optimization for process operations in oil refineries with applications of linear programming in crude …show more content…

Ras Tanura Refinery has undergone massive and irreversible changes because of the oil production, it has generated great revenues for Saudi Aramco as it uses linear programming methods. The opening of Ras Tanura refinery in 1945 had sparked great expansion of the oil industry." Ras Tanura Refinery is the largest complex of its type in the Middle East and one of the largest in the world”, (Omar Bazuhair, executive director of Refining and NGL Fractionation). The crude unit capacity of Ras Tanura Refinery had increased by more than 15 times to 50,000 bpd by 1945, making the refinery a shining example of Saudi Aramco 's ability to grow and produce oil. The Ras Tanura refinery underwent major expansion worth 8 Billion dollars between 2007 and 2012. Ras Tanura began its massive improvement and success in the 21st century. The year of 2004 was record breaking for Ras Tanura of Aramco Refining. "It was a year in which, essentially, all major objectives and Key Performance Indicators were achieved or surpassed", (VP of Refining, Khalid G. …show more content…

It represents all refinery unit fields, utility consumption, unit capacities, as well as product blending operations of the refinery by means of an objective function subject to several constraints. The objective is to maximize the profit as the special purpose of linear programming is used for the Ras Tanura Refinery planning. This model was developed as a result has proven that it is highly effective for solving blended problems. Hence, Ras Tanura special emphasis is to generate great revenues and maximize profit. This refinery is said to be the oldest and best refinery of Saudi Arabia because it produces 550,000 barrels per day of oil,

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