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Refined products
Through our network of wholly-owned refineries, and our joint venture refineries with international partners, we produce critical feedstock for industry, and essential hydrocarbon products required by individuals and industry.
The company's Downstream operations began in 1945, when the Ras Tanura refinery started operations, and expanded with the acquisition of an in-Kingdom refining network from Samarec in 1993. Today, we produce a full slate of quality lubricants, base oils, and fuels that meet or exceed international quality standards.
Our principle refined products include: LPG, naphtha, gasoline, jet fuel/kerosene, diesel, heavy fuel oil, and asphalt. Aramco’s refining operations are conducted in the Kingdom and internationally through wholly-owned and affiliated refineries. The refining operations allow Aramco to transform its crude oil and NGL into refined products and chemicals for sale within the Kingdom and internationally.
Aramco’s in-Kingdom refineries, both wholly-owned and affiliated, receive their crude oil supply from Aramco’s Upstream production. Together with the local distribution system, this provides Aramco with access to the large domestic marketplace to which it is the sole supplier.
Aramco’s equity share of refined products and the refined products produced through its wholly-owned refineries located within the Kingdom are primarily distributed wholesale to domestic fuels retailers and industrial customers through Aramco’s pipelines, distribution and terminals system.
In addition to increasing its in-Kingdom refining capability, Aramco is also expanding its strategically-integrated Downstream business in high-growth economies, such as China, India and Southeast Asia, while maintaining its current participation in material demand centers, such as the United States, and countries that rely on importing crude oil such as Japan, and South Korea.
