SYRIA

Homs Refinery Expansion Due for Completion in September

The sixth expansion project at the Syrian state-owned Homs refinery is due for completion at the end of September of this year, according to Syrian Oil Ministry sources. The expansion project, which was awarded to the Czechoslovak firm Technoexport on 1 January 1983, is estimated to cost $143mn and provides for the construction of an isomerization unit (100,000 tons/year), a hydrogenation unit (480,000 tons/year), a catalytic...