VOL. XL

No. 45

10-November-1997

UAE

New Distillation Unit At Metro Oil Fujairah Refinery To Go On Stream Shortly

Greece's Metro Oil Corporation is in the process of commissioning a new 45,000 b/dcrude distillation unit at its 35,000 b/d refinery in the UAE emirate of Fujairah. Therefinery which was bought in the US second hand in 1993, was dismantled and reassembled inFujairah (MEES, 1 November 1993) It went on stream in late 1995 with a productyield of 61% fuel oil, 22% gasoil and 17% naphtha....