MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

10.05.2013

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (SAUDI ARAMCO)

 

 

Registered Office :

Saudi Aramco Compound, Al Dhahran High Street, P O Box 5000 & 1565, Dhahran 31311

 

 

Country :

Saudi Arabia 

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

13.11.1988

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

Not Available 

 

 

Legal Form :

owned by the government of Saudi Arabia

 

 

Line of Business :

Subject is involved in all phases of oil and gas production, refining, transportation and marketing.

 

 

No. of Employees :

56,066 employees (of which 48,647 are Saudi nationals)

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

A

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Fairly Large

 

Status :

Good

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

Litigation :

Clear 

 

NOTES:

Any query related to this report can be made on e-mail: infodept@mirainform.com while quoting report number, name and date.

 

ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31st, 2013

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.12.2012)

Current Rating

(31.03.2013)

Saudi Arabia 

A2

A2

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 

 

Saudi Arabia - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

Saudi Arabia has an oil-based economy with strong government controls over major economic activities. It possesses about one-fifth of the world's proven petroleum reserves, ranks as the largest exporter of petroleum, and plays a leading role in OPEC. The petroleum sector accounts for roughly 80% of budget revenues, 45% of GDP, and 90% of export earnings. Saudi Arabia is encouraging the growth of the private sector in order to diversify its economy and to employ more Saudi nationals. Diversification efforts are focusing on power generation, telecommunications, natural gas exploration, and petrochemical sectors. Almost 6 million foreign workers play an important role in the Saudi economy, particularly in the oil and service sectors, while Riyadh is struggling to reduce unemployment among its own nationals. Saudi officials are particularly focused on employing its large youth population, which generally lacks the education and technical skills the private sector needs. Riyadh has substantially boosted spending on job training and education, most recently with the opening of the King Abdallah University of Science and Technology - Saudi Arabia''s first co-educational university. As part of its effort to attract foreign investment, Saudi Arabia acceded to the WTO in December 2005 after many years of negotiations. The government has begun establishing six "economic cities" in different regions of the country to promote foreign investment and plans to spend $373 billion between 2010 and 2014 on social development and infrastructure projects to advance Saudi Arabia''s economic development.

                                                                          

Source : CIA

 

 

COMPANY NAME

 

SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (SAUDI ARAMCO)

 

 

company ADDRESS

 

Registered & Physical Address

Location            : Saudi Aramco Compound

Street               : Al Dhahran High Street

PO Box             : 5000 & 1565

Town                 : Dhahran 31311

Country             : Saudi Arabia

Telephone         : (966-3) 8754915 / 8756110 / 8747400 / 8770110 / 8730115

Facsimile          : (966-3) 8738490 / 8738190

Email                : webmaster@aramco.com

 

Premises

Subject operates from a large suite of offices and processing facilities that are owned and located in the Industrial Area of Dhahran.

 

Branch Office (s)

 

     Location                                                                                          Description

 

·       PO Box: 73                                                                                      Owned office premises

Jeddah

     Tel: (966-2) 6534655 / 6654261

 

·       PO Box: 319                                                                                     Owned office premises

Riyadh

     Tel: (966-1) 4562100 / 4641055

 

·       Industrial Development Division                                                           Owned office premises

PO Box: 2239

Dhahran 31311

Tel: (966-3) 8572438

Fax: (966-3) 8573138

 

 

KEY PRINCIPALS

 

     Name                                                                                              Position

·       H.E. Ali I. Al Naimi                                                                            Chairman

·       Khalid A Al Falih                                                                               President & Chief Executive Officer

·       HE Dr Abdul Rahman A. Al Tuwaijri                                                    Director

·       HE Dr Ibrahim A. Al Assaf                                                                  Director

 

·       HE Dr Mohamed I. Al Suwaiyel                                                           Director

·       Abdulaziz F Al Khayyal                                                                     Director

·       Dr Khaled S Al Sultan                                                                        Director

·       Ali I Al Naimi                                                                                     Director

·       Peter L Woicke                                                                                 Director

·       James W Kinnear                                                                              Director

·       Sir Mark Moody-Stuart                                                                       Director

·       Salim S Al Aydh                                                                               Director

·       Mohammad A Al Ali                                                                          Director

·       Khalid G Al Buainain                                                                         Director

·       David B Kultgen                                                                                Director

·       Amin H Nasser                                                                                 Director

·       Abdulrahman F Al Wuhaib                                                                 Director

·       Abdullatif A Al Othman                                                                      Finance Manager

 

 

LEGAL FORM & OWNERS

 

Registration Details     : Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) was incorporated on 13th November 1988 by the government of Saudi Arabia as a national oil company to assume the responsibilities of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco). Aramco was a US Company owned by the state of Saudi Arabia, and run in co-operation with four US Oil companies – Chevron Corp, Exxon Corp, Mobil Corp, and Texaco Inc.

 

On 14th June 1993 subject was merged with Saudi Arabian Marketing & Refining Co (Samarec) which was responsible for marketing the country’s oil and running most of the Kingdom’s refineries. In a second merger ordered by Royal Decree on 1st July 1993, the subject took control of the net assets of the General Organisation of Petroleum & Minerals (Petromin)

 

History                         : 1933   Saudi Arabia grants oil concession to California Arabian

Standard Oil Company (Casoc), affiliate of Standard Oil of California (Socal, today's Chevron). Oil prospecting begins on Kingdom's east coast.

 

1936   Texas Company (now Texaco) acquires 50 percent interest in Socal's concession.

 

1938   Kingdom's first commercial oil field discovered at Dhahran. Crude is exported by barge to Bahrain.

 

  1939   First tanker load of petroleum is exported.

 

1944      Casoc changes its name to Arabian American Oil Company

(Aramco).

 

  1945   Ras Tanura Refinery begins operations.

 

1948   Standard Oil of New Jersey and Socony-Vacuum Oil (both now Exxon Mobil) join Socal and Texaco as owners of Aramco.

 

1950   1,700km Trans-Arabian Pipe Line (Tapline) is completed, linking Eastern Province oil fields to Lebanon and the Mediterranean.

 

1951   Safaniya field, the world's largest offshore oil field is discovered.

 

1956   Aramco confirms scale of Ghawar and Safaniya, world's largest oil field and largest offshore field, respectively.

 

1961   Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) - propane and butane - is first processed at Ras Tanura and shipped to customers.

 

1966   Tankers begin calling at "Sea Island," new offshore crude oil loading platform off Ras Tanura.

 

1973   Saudi Arabia's Government acquires a 25 percent participation interest in Aramco.

 

  1975   Master Gas System project is launched.

 

1980   Saudi Government acquires 100 percent participation interest in Aramco, purchasing almost all of the company's assets.

 

1981   East-West Pipelines, built for Aramco's natural gas liquids (NGL)and crude oil, link the Eastern Province with Yanbu' on Red Sea.

 

1982   Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Center (EXPEC) opens in Dhahran.

 

  1984   Company acquires its first four supertankers.

 

1987   East-West Crude Oil Pipeline expansion is completed, boosting capacity to 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd).

 

1988   Saudi Arabian Oil Company, or Saudi Aramco, is established.

 

1989   High-quality oil and gas are discovered south of Riyadh, the first find outside the company's original operating area. Saudi Aramco and Texaco launch the Star Enterprise refining and marketing joint venture.

 

  1991   Company plays major role combating the Gulf oil spill.

 

1992   East-West Crude Oil Pipeline capacity boosted to 5 million bpd. Saudi Aramco affiliate purchases 35 percent interest in SsangYong Oil Refining Company (now S-Oil Corporation) of the Republic of Korea.

 

1993   Saudi Aramco takes charge of Kingdom's domestic refining, marketing, distribution and joint-venture refining interests.

 

1994   Maximum sustained crude-oil production capacity is returned to 10 million bpd. Company acquires a 40 percent equity interest in Petron, largest refiner in the Philippines.

 

1995   Company completes program to build 15 very large crude carriers. Saudi Aramco President and CEO Ali I. Al-Naimi is named Kingdom's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.

 

1996   Saudi Aramco acquires 50 percent of Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries and Avinoil. Company also assumes controlling interest in two Jeddah-based lubricants companies, now known as Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Company (Luberef) and Saudi Arabian Lubricating Oil Company (Petrolube).

 

1998   Saudi Aramco, Texaco and Shell establish Motiva Enterprises LLC, a major refining and marketing joint venture in the southern and eastern United States.

 

1999   HRH Crown Prince 'Abd Allah inaugurates the Shaybah field in the Rub' al-Khali desert, one of the largest projects of its kind in the world goes on stream.

 

The Dhahran-Riyadh-Qasim multi-product pipeline and the Ras Tanura Upgrade project are completed.

 

The second Saudi Aramco-Mobil lubricating oil refinery (Luberef II) in Yanbu' commences operations.

 

  2000   Petroleum Intelligence Weekly ranks the company No.1 in the world for the 11th straight year, based on the Kingdom's crude oil reserves and production.

 

Aramco Gulf Operations Limited is established to assume management of the government's petroleum interest in the Offshore Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

 

New facilities are under construction in the Haradh and Hawiyah gas plant projects to process gas for delivery to the Master Gas System and on to domestic markets.

 

                                      2001   Hawiyah Gas Plant, capable of processing up to 1.6 billion standard cubic feet per day of non-associated gas, comes on stream.

 

                                      2003   Haradh Gas Plant completed two and a half months ahead of schedule.

 

                                      2004   HRH Crown Prince 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd Al-'Aziz Al Saud, First Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the National Guard, inaugurates the 800,000 barrel-per-day Qatif-Abu Sa'fah Producing Plants mega project. In addition to the crude, the plants provide 370 million standard cubic feet of associated gas daily.

 

2005          Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. sign a joint

venture agreement for the development of a large, integrated refining and petrochemical complex in the Red Sea town of Rabigh, on Saudi Arabia's west coast.

 

2006          Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical broke ground on PETRORabigh, an integrated

refining/petrochemical project. Haradh III was completed, yielding 300,000 bpd of oil.

Accords were signed for two export refineries -- Jubail (with Total) and in Yanbu' (with

ConocoPhillips). 

 

2007          Saudi Aramco begins a program to build a world-class graduate research university, the

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

 

2008          Saudi Aramco celebrates its 75th Anniversary and, as a gift to the people of Saudi Arabia,

launches a project to build the King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture (popularly known as Ithra) in Dhahran.   

2009          Saudi Aramco achieves maximum sustained crude-oil production capacity of 12 million bpd.

 

AFFILIATED COMPANIES

 

·       Aramco Overseas Co BV

Schuttersveld 14

Leiden

Netherlands

 

·       Aramco Services Co

PO Box: 4535

Houston

Texas 77210

United States of America

Tel: (1-713) 4324000

 

·       Aramco Associated Co

16875 J.F.K. Boulevard

Houston

Texas

United States of America

 

·       Saudi Refining Inc

W. Loop Street

Houston

Texas

United States of America

 

·       Saudi Petroleum International Inc

Houston

Texas 77210

United States of America

Tel: (1-713) 4324000

 

·       Saudi Petroleum Overseas Ltd

United Kingdom

 

·       Vela International Marine Ltd

     Liberia

 

·       Petron Corp

     Philippines

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:         Saudi Aramco is involved in all phases of oil and gas production, refining, transportation and marketing. Subject’s key facts and figures are as follows:

 

Oil reserves and production

Recoverable crude oil and condensate reserves: 259.7 billion barrels

Total annual crude oil production: 2.9 billion barrels

Average daily crude oil production: 9.1 million barrels

 

Gas reserves and production

Gas reserves at year’s end: 282.6 trillion standard cubic feet

Total annual gas production: 3.4 trillion standard cubic feet

Average daily gas production: 9.4 billion standard cubic feet

 

Natural gas liquids (NGLs)

Total annual NGL production: 410.2 million barrels

Average daily NGL production: 1.1 million barrels

 

New discoveries

Oil fields: Namlan, AsSayd, Qamran, Arsan

Gas fields: Jalamid

 

Wells completed

New oil wells: 27

New gas wells: 17

Total workovers: 74

 

Subject operates 87 oil and gas fields and is the discoverer and producer of world's largest oil field: Ghawar Field, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia - 65 billion barrels of reserves, as well as the discoverer and producer of world's largest offshore oil field: Safaniya Field, Arabian Gulf - 37 billion barrels of reserves.

 

Oil Operations

Saudi Aramco's oil operations encompass the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including territorial waters in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea. Totalling more than 1.5 million square kilometres. Most production comes from fields in the coastal plains of the Eastern Province in an area extending 300 kilometres north and south of Dhahran.

 

Saudi Aramco implemented a PC-Cluster supercomputer system to run inparallel with its computer intensive earth-imaging application Pre-Stack Time Migration (PSTM), which was developed by Saudi Aramco. This advanced seismic processing technology provides better images of deep hydrocarbon targets and improves the success rate of drilling activity in support of the gas production program. The PC-Cluster architecture provides unprecedented cost benefits because it uses off-the-shelf computer components linked together with off-the-shelf high-speed interconnect switches.

 

Gas Operations

The Hawiyah Gas Plant, which became fully operational at the end of 2001, provides an additional 1.4 billion cubic feet per day of sales gas.

 

To meet growing domestic demand, the Kingdom has embarked on a major expansion of its gas industry and the downstream consuming sectors of the economy, particularly petrochemical production and exports and electricity and water desalination facilities. Subsequent to the Long Term Kingdom Gas Strategy developed by the Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals and Saudi Aramco in 1998, the government invited interested international oil companies (IOCs) to participate in the development of new gas fields, gas production and downstream utilization projects. Gas is targeted to be "an engine of growth" for the Saudi economy. The so-called Natural Gas Initiative has made substantial progress and has an ambitious schedule ahead to implement some $25 billion worth of projects over the next five to ten years. Progress is being made on three Core Ventures :

 

Core Venture 1 includes ethane and NGL recovery from the Haradh and Hawiyah Gas Plants, additional new gas development and production, two petrochemical complexes to utilize ethane and NGL and two large power/water generation facilities on the east coast of Saudi Arabia. The IOC consortium selected to develop CV1 includes ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Philips.

 

Core Venture 2 focuses on gas development in the Red Sea and along the west coast. It includes exploration, development, production and downstream facilities, i.e., petrochemical and power/water plants. ExxonMobil, Occidental and Marathon are in a consortium to develop CV2.

 

Core Venture 3 comprises gas exploration and production in the Shaybah/Kidan area in the south-eastern part of the Kingdom. It will include downstream facilities, as well. A consortium of Shell, Total, Fina, Elf and Conoco is working to develop CV3.

 

During 2004 subject commenced work the Hawiyah Gas Plant expansion and NGL Recovery programme, composed of a series of expansion projects at existing gas plants and an upgrade of the existing pipeline network for the delivery of new NGL liquids. Central to the Hawiyah NGL programme is the construction of a new grass roots NGL recovery facility near Hawiyah Gas Plant. The project will increase NGL production by 310,000 bpd.

 

Refining, Supply & Distribution

Saudi Aramco's responsibilities expanded greatly on July 1st 1993, when a Royal Decree merged into the company all of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil refineries and distribution and marketing operations that were operated by the Petromin marketing and refining project known as Samarec. Under the same decree, Saudi Aramco assumed Petromin's 50-percent interests in three domestic joint-venture refineries. Saudi Aramco's new refining interests, combined with its Ras Tanura Refinery and its joint-venture and shareholder interests in five other refineries in the United States and the Far East, place the company in the top rank of world refiners.

 

Subject owns and operates the world's second largest tanker fleet and has a total refining capacity of 3.4 million barrels per day

 

Saudi Aramco Refining
World-class domestic refineries stretching from the Arabian Gulf to the Red Sea maintain a reliable supply of more than a million barrels per day of products to meet the needs of domestic and international markets.

 

Supply and Distribution
A broad network of bulk plants and air-fueling units in the Kingdom supplies thousands of bulk customers with products ranging from gasoline and jet fuel to fuel oil and liquefied petroleum gas.

 

Terminals
Mammoth tank farms and shipping terminals supply crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products to customers around the globe. Every year, more than 4,000 tankers call at Ras Tanura and Ju'aymah on the Arabian Gulf, and at Yanbu', Jeddah and Rabigh on the Red Sea.

 

Operations Coordination Center
OCC is the hub of oil, gas, electricity and refined products management, optimising hydrocarbon system capacities and inventories to deliver quality products to the customer at the right time and place.

 

Electric Power Network
An extensive electrical power generation, transmission and distribution network supports Saudi Aramco's industrial operations in the Kingdom and sustains their continual growth.

 

Recent Discoveries

In 2005, Saudi Aramco booked three oil discoveries and two gas discoveries.

In June, gas was discovered at Fazran, about 59 miles/95 km west of Dhahran, and in December, gas was discovered at Midrikah, about 217 miles/350 km west of Dhahran. Of the oil discoveries, the Du'ayban discovery, made in April, flowed 3,260 bpd of Arabian Super Light crude oil, while the Halfa discovery, also in April, flowed 6,000 bpd of Arabian Extra Light crude oil. In November, oil was struck at Muraiqib, with the discovery well flowing 1,079 bpd of Arabian Light.

 

In addition, an oil discovery was made outside the booked reserves area at Fadhili, northeast of Riyadh. This discovery established a significant extension of the Fadhili reservoir in the field of the same name, and could result in the additional booking of approximately 700 million barrels of original oil in place, of which 45 percent, or 300 million barrels, is recoverable.

 

Subject has a workforce of 56,066 employees (of which 48,647 are Saudi nationals)

 

 

FINANCIAL DATA

 

Subject is owned by the government of Saudi Arabia and as such no financial information is released.

 

 

BANKERS

 

·       National Commercial Bank

PO Box: 13

Dammam 31411

Tel: (966-3) 8331188

Fax: (966-3) 8336058

 

·       Saudi American Bank

PO Box: 3113

Dammam 31471

Tel: (966-3) 8337171

 

·       Saudi British Bank

PO Box: 1618

Dammam 31411

Tel: (966-3) 8331553

 

 

PAYMENT HISTORY

 

No complaints regarding subject’s payments have been reported.

 

Date of transaction                  March 2004                  September 2005           October 2006

Amount overdue             0                                  0                                  0

Payment terms                          180 days                       180 days                       180 days

Payment Method                       Letters of Credit             Letters of Credit             Letters of Credit

Paying record                            No Complaints               No Complaints               No Complaints

Currency                                   Canadian Dollars            Canadian Dollars            Canadian Dollars

 

 

GENERAL COMMENTS

 

Saudi Arabian Oil Company is the largest oil producer in the world supplying 11% of the world’s oil demand. The company controls proven oil reserves of about 260.1 billion barrels (more than 25% of the world’s total).

 

Saudi Aramco owns a fleet of oil tankers and invests in refineries and distribution networks in other countries.

 

Subject is wholly owned by the government of Saudi Arabia and the operating history is clear with nothing detrimental uncovered regarding the manner in which payment obligations are met. As such we have no reason to doubt the company for respecting any of its financial trade commitments.

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency
Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.54.24

UK Pound

1

Rs.84.30

Euro

1

Rs.71.36

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

NIT 

 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

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NB

New Business

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This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

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