VOL. XXXVII
NO. 16
17-JANUARY-1994
Egypt
Syria Upgrades Banias Refinery
A new catalytic cracking unit was commissioned earlier this month at Syria's6mn ton/year (120,000-b/d) refinery at Banias, which will raise local productionof gas oil by 280,000 t/y from 3.6mn t/y to 3.88mn t/y, thus enabling Syria tobecome nearly self-sufficient for gas oil. Syria's consumption of gas oil isaround 4mn t/y, and the new unit will reduce gas oil imports from about 400,000t/y to 120,000 t/y. The new unit will...
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