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Egypt LNG Imports Hit 7-Year High 2.78mn T For 2024, Eyes Tentative Exports For 2025
...Egypt resumed LNG imports last year after a six-year hiatus, with volumes of 2.78mn tons the highest since 2017 after a late-year surge. Cairo eyes the resumption of exports later this year, but this is far from guaranteed. Egypt’s slumping gas output and rising demand saw the country dr...
Volume: 68Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2025 -
Qatar Takes FID On Huge Petrochemicals Complex
...CUS Qatar first announced plans for this major new petrochemicals venture in 2017, with Mr Kaabi telling MEES in an interview that it was planning a “world-scale” facility to process ethane from its mammoth North Field gas expansion project (MEES, 8 December 2017). This was a major development given th...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023 -
Iraq Baiji Refinery Sees Restart Of Second CDU
...th Mosul and other parts of northern Iraq liberated from the Islamic State in 2017, demand for electricity (powered by fuel oil) and transport fuels has skyrocketed, leading to significant shortages. Furthermore, the 140,000 b/d additions from the two restored Baiji units help Iraq keep its costly im...
Volume: 64Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021 -
Qatar Petchems To Benefit From QP’s Upstream Ambition
...pco 20%) at Ras Laffan was canned in September 2014, while the $6.5bn 1.5mn t/y Al-Karaana facility (QP 80%, Shell 20%) was shelved in January 2015 (MEES, 16 January 2015). When Mr Kaabi told MEES in December 2017 that QP was launching a new “world scale” 1.6mn t/y ethane cracker it therefore ma...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
Aramco Ramps Up Domestic Petchems Supply Slate, Boosts Saudi Manufacturing
...ansformational’ JVs, notably with Sabic for a crude oil to chemicals plant in Saudi Arabia and with ExxonMobil for an ethane cracker and polyolefins plants in Texas (MEES, 1 December 2017). ...
Volume: 61Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2018 -
Aramco Awards Ras Tanura Clean Fuels, Seals Indonesia Deal
...nfiguration has been completed and the process to select technology licensors will start soon. Basic engineering design work is scheduled for completion in first quarter 2017, with progress to FEED in the second quarter and project start-up slated for 2021. The Cilacap expansion is a key part of Aramco’s ov...
Volume: 60Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2017 -
Kuwait Petchems Expansion Moves Slowly Despite Equate PE Boost
...efins 3 feedstock options include ethane, along with some refinery off-gases and propane, in combination with naphtha and condensate. PIC sees the main target market for Olefins 3 products as Asia, with further sales anticipated in the Middle East and Europe. PIC had proposed Olefins 3 start-up in 2017...
Volume: 58Issue: 02Published at Fri, 09 Jan 2015