Abdulrahman Nasser Alhatlani

“Abdulrahman Alhatlani is an Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer at Saudi Aramco Jubail Refinery (SASREF), specializing in refinery optimization, control enhancement, and operational performance/safety improvement. With nearly 3 years of hands-on refinery experience, he focuses on improving plant availability, profitability, and operational stability through Base Layer (BL) and APC controllers enhancements.
He has contributed to the development and revamp of multiple APC applications, enabling operations to run closer to optimal limits while minimizing product giveaways. Abdulrahman is an Operational Excellence (OE) Certified Assessor, supporting continuous improvement and performance benchmarking.


He holds an Honors Degree in Chemical Engineering from Jubail Industrial College and completed the Honeywell UOP Refinery Technical Program. His leadership values are ownership and continuous improvement.”

Participates in

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME | Energy Fuels and Molecules

Pathways to Net-Zero Refining and Petrochemical Facilities
Forum 16 | Digital Poster Plaza 3
30
April
10:00 12:00
UTC+3
A key part of achieving net zero emission is decarbonization. SASREF’s efforts on decarbonization started back in 2021 when we successfully captured CO2 from our Hydrogen Manufacturing Plant and exported the CO2 to our neighboring company as their feedstock, which also mark a major milestone in our efforts to develop clean energy solutions. The testament for this achievement was when SASREF proudly obtained the world’s first independent certification on “blue hydrogen” production which was granted by TUV Rheindland in August 2022, certifying SASREF for producing 8,075 tons of blue hydrogen in 2021.

In year 2024, 221750 tons of Carbon Capture was achieved by SASREF and exported to a neighboring company as feedstock 

In line with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s target to achieve net zero carbon emission by year 2060, SASREF in turn has an ambition to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 2050, which is also in line with our Shareholder, Saudi Aramco.

Moving forward, SASREF embarked on an Energy Optimization Study in 2024, in order to identify current consumption and losses across the refinery’s processes and equipment, and explore potential overall energy efficiency improvement.  

Upon completion of the study at the end of 2024, we have identified several projects and initiatives to be executed in near future. To mitigate the 0.11 MMtCO2e from our current business and operations by 2035, we will execute several initiatives as listed below 


  • Low Pressure Steam (LPS) Header Excess Steam Elimination

  • Recovery of Medium Pressure Steam (MPS) Gen in Ultra Low Sulphur  Diesel  (ULSD) Unit

  • Seven (7) Major Heaters Efficiency Improvement

  • Multi-stage Steam Turbine Generator (STG) to Balance MP and LP Steam Headers

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