Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC), is a consortium of 4 international companies which agreed in 2018, with the government of Uganda, to invest in, construct, operate and co-own the Uganda Oil Refinery on the Eastern shore of Lake Albert. It consists of General Electric of the United States, Yaatra Ventures LLC of the United States, Intracontinent Asset Holdings Limited of Mauritius and Saipem SPA of Italy.
The Consortium signed a definitive agreement with the government of Uganda, committing to design, develop, finance, construct, operate and maintain the planned 60,000-barrel-per-day Uganda Oil Refinery in the Hoima District, on the Eastern shore of Lake Albert in the Western Region Uganda. The signing of this Project Framework Agreement, allowed the consortium to begin the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), Project Capital and Investment Costs Estimation (PCE) and environmental impact assessment and social impact assessment.
Uganda has ambitions to produce first oil by 2025.
Simeco’s scope was the poli-disciplinary FEED of the two main hydrotreating unit of the refinery, i.e:
Unit 11 Diesel Hydrotreater (UOP’s Unionfining technology)
Unit 13 RFCC Gasoline Hydrotreater (UOP’s Selectifining technology)