1. Gas Plant Inauguration Boosts Iran’s Petchems Outlook

    ...t to go-ahead (MEES, 10 October 2014). As MEES wrote at the time, Iran was struggling with gas supply issues that called its ambitious petchems expansion into question (MEES, 31 January 2011). The easing of sanctions in 2015 following the JCPOA ‘nuclear deal’ gave an opportunity to bring foreign co...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2021
  2. Egypt Squeezes More Out Of Its Refining Fleet

    ...uge for 2019 as a whole, most products’ output grew year-on-year. However, jet-kero is the only product to reach a new record high, averaging 58,000 b/d. Analysis of the latest Jodi monthly data shows diesel at 149,000 b/d in 11M19, short of the record 163,000 b/d in 2011, while gasoline’s rally to 86...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020
  3. Petchems The Catalyst For Middle East Economic Diversification

    ...d services industries.  In 2011, said Mr Mady, SABIC’s direct value-added contribution to national GDP was about 2%, its private sector contribution was about 9% and its contribution to the industrial non-oil sector was 34%. “SABIC takes the process of employing local talent seriously,” he sa...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013