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Aramco, Total get $120m loan for JV refinery

By Reem Shamseddine

Saturday, 27 March 2010 10:20 PM

LOAN APPROVED: Saudi based Islamic Development Bank said that it had agreed to grant Saudi Aramco a $120m loan to build a $12.8bn refinery with France Total. (Getty Images)

LOAN APPROVED: Saudi based Islamic Development Bank said that it had agreed to grant Saudi Aramco a $120m loan to build a $12.8bn refinery with France Total. (Getty Images)

Saudi based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) said on Saturday it agreed to grant State oil giant Saudi Aramco a $120 million loan to build a $12.8 billion refinery in Jubail with France Total.

The project is being financed by all Saudi commercial banks, the Saudi Industrial Development Fund, Public Investment Fund, Barclays, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, BNP Paribas and Citigroup, IDB said in a statement.

The loan is part of an Islamic facility, IDB said.

Funding for the refinery, would include a sukuk issue, which could be over $500 million, a project director of the joint venture company Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (Satorp) said in October.

Financing deals for around $8 billion of the total cost of the refinery would be completed in the second quarter this year, Salem Shaheen, chief executive of Satorp said on Wednesday.

The 400,000 barrels per day (bdp) crude refinery would start production in mid-2013.

Aramco currently owns 62.5 percent of the plant, while Total holds the rest. But an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled to take place in two to three years will leave Aramco with an equal stake as Total. (Reuters)

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