SAUDI ARABIA

Japanese Buyers Start Lifting Products from New Jubail Export Refinery 

Two major Japanese trading houses - C. Itoh and Mitsui - have started purchasing Petromin's share of product availability from the new 250,000 b/d export refinery at Jubail on Saudi Arabia's Gulf coast, MEES understands. The refinery, which started up last April and began export shipments in Junes is owned 50-50 by Saudi Arabia's Petromin and Shell International.

So far Petromin's...