Sinopec completes main unit of the Middle East’s largest refinery. Credit: Sinopec.

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has completed the central unit of the Al-Zour refinery project in Kuwait.

Claimed to be the largest refinery in the Middle East, Al-Zour will enable Kuwait to become the biggest clean oil-producing country in the region.

Launched in October 2015, the refinery has an annual processing capacity of 3,150t.

Being constructed with a $1.39bn investment, the Al-Zour refinery produces gasoline, diesel and kerosene that adhere to the Euro 5 emission standards.

Sinopec noted that around 500 companies from across 50 countries and regions participated in the Al-Zour refinery project.

Sinopec Luoyang Engineering is serving as the general contractor for the refinery project.

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The company has adopted an intelligent collaborative work system and used virtual designs to coordinate with global partners and share data in order to complete the 15 process production plants.

These plants also include the construction of the hydrodesulphurisation plant.

Al-Zour refinery project manager Usama Ali expects Sinopec to continue participation in further projects in Kuwait.

Sinopec said in a statement: “Adhering to independent innovation, Sinopec owns a series of world-leading technologies and solutions in areas of oil refining, ethylene, aromatic hydrocarbon and more, as well as the capabilities to build 10Mt refineries, million-tonnage ethylene units and million-tonnage aromatic hydrocarbon units.”

Starting operations in 2016, Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company is Sinopec’s first overseas refinery project in Saudi Arabia which began operations in 2016.

In October, Fluor’s joint venture COOEC-Fluor Heavy Industries’ fabrication yard in China completed the pipe spool fabrication for the Al-Zour project.