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MEES Interview: Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister For Refining Affairs Hamid Younes
...eir secondary units – with a total nameplate crude processing capacity of 290,000 b/d. The Shamal (North) refinery was the largest at 150,000 b/d, but like the 70,000 b/d capacity Baiji-1 and similarly sized Baiji-2 was destroyed by the Islamic State terrorist group in 2014 (MEES, 26 September 2014...
Volume: 67Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 -
Iraq Reboots Downstream Development Drive
...imacy of rehabilitating the Baiji refinery, formerly Iraq’s largest at 310,000 b/d but now offline after being gutted by the Islamic State in 2014. Achieving “some level of operations” at the Baiji refinery is “the most urgent requirement within the petroleum sector,” the document says, adding that “it...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018 -
Mideast To Add 1.7Mn B/D CDU Capacity By 2020; Highest Growth Worldwide-IEA
...n b/d in 2014. “Although capacity expansions look in line with oil demand growth,” the forecast notes, “in fact as much as one third of incremental demand will be met by liquids supplies bypassing the refining system.” While non-OECD Asia is leading the refining growth in terms of added capacity, th...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
Oman: Liwa Bid Groups
...int ventures (MEES, 19 December 2014). The plant will be built in four parts. An 800,000 tons/year steam cracker will incorporate CB&I process technology. A polymers plant will include 500,000 t/y linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), 300,000 t/y high density polyethylene (HDPE) and 215,000 t/y po...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015