Red Nova: Cooperation Between Shell and Aramco to Develop Refinery in Texas: “…Saudi Arabia and the Shell Oil Company intend to increase to 600,000 barrels the daily oil refining capacity of their Port Arthur Refinery in the American state of Texas at a cost of $3.2 billion.”: Posted Friday 30 September 2005

A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted a notice published in mid- September 2005 by the British oil industry newspaper, "Oil Daily", announcing that Saudi Arabia and the Shell Oil Company intend to increase to 600,000 barrels the daily oil refining capacity of their Port Arthur Refinery in the American state of Texas at a cost of $3.2 billion.

This refinery currently has a daily capacity of 235,000 barrels. The paper noted that the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company and ARAMCO operate this refinery in cooperation via the Motifa Enterprise Oil Refining and Distributing Company.

Source: Info-Prod Research (Middle East)

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