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Aramco Plans Ras Tanura Shutdown
...edstock processing is carried out in a 325,000 b/d crude distillation unit and a 225,000 b/d condensate splitter. The CFP contract, awarded to Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas in early 2017, adds three main upgrading units – a 138,000 b/d naphtha hydrotreater, a 90,000 b/d continuous catalyst reformer (CCR) an...
Volume: 63Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2020 -
Algeria Completes Refinery Expansion, Looks Overseas For Further Gains
...halt “a litigation that was detrimental to both parties” (MEES, 9 June 2017). The work was re-awarded to Chinese state firm CPECC for AD45bn ($408mn at the time) in late 2016 (MEES, 11 November 2016). Completion of the project takes Algeria’s crude processing capacity to 559,000 b/d, or 72...
Volume: 62Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2019 -
Egypt Set To Miss 2022 Transport Fuel Self-Sufficiency Target
...ypt’s reliance on products imports. The focus of upgrades is on increasing output of the two key transport fuels, diesel and gasoline. For both, Egypt was reliant on imports to meet 46% of 2018 demand. This figure is actually an improvement on record levels of over 50% seen in 2016 and 2017. Ho...
Volume: 62Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2019 -
Iran: Gulf Star Ramp-Up Hikes Gasoline Output In Face Of Rising Consumption
...oject at Bandar Abbas. PGS-1, where construction began in 2007, was slowed by a lack of funds during sanctions. Despite this, PGS was touted as a strategic project, vital to ending Iran’s reliance on gasoline imports. When PGS-1 started up in April 2017, its naphtha reformer was not operating, so na...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Aramco Pays Petronas $7bn For 50% Stake In Rapid Project
...sic engineering design for the Cilacap expansion is due for completion in first quarter 2017, with front end engineering design (FEED) scheduled to begin in the second quarter and project start-up slated for 2021. Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser says the company is also interested in expansion pr...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
Saudi Arabia On Track For 26% Refining Capacity Hike This Year
...zan n/a 400 2017 End-2017 Total 3,300 *All JVS Are With Aramco. ^First 200,000 B/D Cdu Started Sep 2013, Second Due To Start Up Mid-2014. Source: Saudi Aramco, ME...
Volume: 57Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2014 -
Aramco Lines Up Samsung For Riyadh Clean Fuels Projects
...nura Clean fuels project due for completion in 2017 Source: MEES. Saudi Aramco and Chinese state firm Sinopec in January 2012 agreed to build a 400,000 b/d export refinery at Yanbu’ under their Yanbu’ Aramco Sinopec Refinery Company (Yasref) joint venture. The project ha...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013