REGIONAL
 
OPEC’s MENA Refiners Holding Steady Ahead Of Capacity Surge
 
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region refiners have largely held their crude distillation capacities and products slates steady over the past five years, according to OPEC’s latest Annual Statistical Bulletin (ASB). Data for the 2008-12 period does show the impact of geopolitical turbulence in some countries.
 
While Iraq’s total throughput capacity has been revived in the...