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QatarEnergy Crowns LNG Conference With Two Major Supply Deals
...ES, 7 July 2017). When FID was finally taken on the $29bn NFE in 2021, first gas was targeted for 4Q 2025 (MEES, 12 February 2021). But LNG projects are notoriously complex and prone to delays, and NFE has been no exception, with the startup of the first train pushed back. The latest guidance of...
Volume: 69Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2026 -
Oman’s Long-Awaited 230,000 b/d Duqm Refinery Gets A Right Royal Reception
...y to inaugurate the Middle East’s newest refinery. The ceremony caps nearly twenty years of planning and work on the refinery (MEES, 4 December 2006), with start-up repeatedly delayed from its original 2012 plan (MEES, 12 October 2012). Kuwait joined the $9bn project in 2017 with the signing of...
Volume: 67Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2024 -
Egypt Petchems Sector Boosted By Gas Revival, Eyes Expansion
...gasoil, 210,000 t/y of benzene and 485,000 t/y of petcoke as well as 600,000 t/y of polyethylene and 380,000 t/y of polypropylene (MEES, 22 September 2017). E-Styrenics has awarded contracts to local firms for a 300,000 t/y styrene plant at Alexandria. This will process ethylene and benzene to pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2020 -
IMF: Praise, $2bn For Egypt
...rong remittances, while unemployment has declined to its lowest level since 2011.” A combination of “the authorities’ fiscal consolidation efforts and high nominal GDP growth” means Egypt’s public-debt-to-GDP ratio “declined markedly” from 103.2% for 2016-17 to 92.6% for 2017-18 and a forecast 86...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Egypt: Increased Gas Availability Boosts Petchems Producers
...d, with Eni’s giant 24tcf Zohr field the most recent addition (MEES, 15 December 2017). Canada’s Methanex, operator (50%) of the 1.26mn t/y EMethanex methanol plant at Damietta on the Mediterranean, has received full gas allocations since late-2016. A lack of gas forced it to shut down for se...
Volume: 61Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2018 -
Shell Sees Qatar’s Pearl GTL Plant Offline For ‘A Couple Of Months’
...Shell anticipates that its Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant at Ras Laffan in Qatar may be offline into the second quarter of 2017 as it works to fix a problem with “some or all” of the plant’s 18 gasifiers. The problem came to light in late December, when the Anglo-Dutch major announced that it...
Volume: 60Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2017 -
Iran Inks First Post-Sanctions Petchems Deal: Will It Catalyze Sector Revival?
...uld earn $18bn on petchems sales in the current Iranian year up from $16bn for 2014-15. He says the country’s petchems income is expected to reach $22bn by 2017-18. Mr Zanganeh says Iran’s upstream and downstream expansion plans require a total investment of $200bn: $130bn upstream and $70bn for pe...
Volume: 59Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2016 -
Gulf Refiners Plan 1Mn B/D Additions By End-2014
...C awarded. Saudi Aramco Jazan, S Arabia 400,000 b/d. Under construction, due onstream 2017. OOC/IPIC (DRPIC) Duqm, Oman 230,000 b/d, due onstream 2018. FEED bids being st...
Volume: 57Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2014 -
Gulf Refiners Progressing Upgrading And Expansion Projects
...an Planning to raise capacity by 82,000 b/d to 197,000 b/d by mid-2016 DRPIC (OOC/IPIC) Duqm, Oman New 230,000 b/d plant due on-stream 2017 KNPC Al-Zour, Kuwait New 61...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013