VOL. XLIV

No. 23

4-June-2001

YEMEN

US Agency To Study Marib Refinery Expansion

Τhe Yemen Oil Refining Company (YORC) announced on 21 May that it had commissioned the US Trade and Development Agency to carry out a study into modernizing and expanding the Marib oil refinery increasing output from 10,000 b/d to 25,000 b/d. The topping plant (10,000 b/d topping unit and 2,500 b/d reformer), built by Yemen Hunt Oil, was inaugurated in 1986 (MEES, 21 April 1986) and then taken over by YORC at the end...