REGIONAL

MENA Refiners Mull New Projects Amid Major Expansion Program

ENA refiners are mulling new capacity expansion projects in the midst of a construction program that could add as much as 2.86mn b/d of crude distillation capacity during 2013-18. Three 400,000 b/d refineries are at various stages of development in Saudi Arabia, while expansions are under way in the UAE and Oman. Algeria has joined the capacity rush, starting work on the first of four 100,000 b/d refineries due on...