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Duqm Refinery Feedstock Imperiled By Hormuz Closure
...ich would later be upgraded to its current 106,000 b/d capacity. Oman then commissioned the Sohar refinery in 2008, initially with a capacity of 116,000 b/d and subsequently expanded to 198,000 b/d in 2017 (MEES, 17 February 2017). In 2006, the government floated plans for the refinery at Duqm be...
Volume: 69Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2026 -
Kuwait’s Pivot To Products Exports Yields Revenue Boost
...2024, that would be the lowest level since 2003. Meanwhile refined products exports have averaged around 850,000 b/d so far this year, putting Kuwait on track to smash 2012’s record 805,000 b/d. Crucially, having shuttered the aging Shuaiba refinery in 2017 and completed the $15.6bn Clean Fu...
Volume: 67Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2024 -
Dubai’s Enoc Imports Qatari Condensate, But Iran Remains The Missing Piece
...loaded 712,000 barrels of deodorized field condensate (DFC) from Qatar’s Ras Laffan at Dubai’s Jebel Ali on 5 March. This was the first such cargo since September 2017. Supplies of Qatari condensate for Enoc’s Jebel Ali splitter had been halted ever since due to the UAE’s participation in the embargo of...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
Kuwait Starts Up Naphtha Unit In CFP Upgrade
...se from 270,000 b/d to 454,000 b/d, whilst Mina al-Ahmadi’s will fall from 466,000 b/d to 347,000 b/d, an overall 9% increase to 801,000 b/d (MEES, 8 March 2019). KNPC originally intended the CFP to be fully operational in late 2017, but completion in the fourth quarter of 2020 now appears the best pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2020 -
Crackers In The Gulf: GCC Refiners Advance Mixed-Feed Projects
...August 2017). Petro Rabigh’s delayed Rabigh-2 expansion, currently being commissioned, will expand petchems output capacity from 2.6mn t/y to almost 5mn t/y. Its key aromatics unit will consume 3mn t/y (67,000 b/d) of naphtha from the refinery to produce 1.34mn t/y paraxylene and 424,000 t/y of...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Firms Advance Direct Oil-To-Chemicals Technology
...reement. But the IEA reckons that Saudi maintains over 2mn b/d of spare capacity: it estimates 2017 capacity at 12.16mn b/d, rising to 12.30mn b/d by 2023. In theory this would enable the kingdom to easily cover the feedstock requirements for the two new plants without denting crude exports. Crude oil is al...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018 -
Turkey’s Tüpraş Racks Up Profits, Maxes Output As Runs Of Iraqi Crude Double
...anned. However, Azeri state firm Socar is building the 200,000 b/d capacity Socar Turkey Aegean Refinery (STAR) at Aliaga, for integration with the Petkim petrochemicals complex. Start-up is scheduled for 2017 and the project is expected to cost $5.5bn. Turkey’s Calik Enerji has also proposed a 30...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Gulf Petchem Megaprojects Eye Shift From Ethane Feedstock
...A, polyols from 30mn cfd ethane, 3mn t/y naphtha SABIC/Celanese Jubail, S Arabia 2016 50 polyacetal QP/Shell (Al-Karaana) Ras Laffan, Qatar 2017...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
Algeria Preparing Tender For Biskra And Tiaret Refineries
...ce-president Abdelkader Benchouia. Addressing reporters on the sidelines of an exhibition in Oran, he said the two “same specification” refinery projects – at Biskra and Tiaret – are part of a $14bn program to build four new refineries, all of which are scheduled to enter service in 2017. Refineries at...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Bahrain Refinery Study Set For June Completion
...stream by 2017 and the last one by 2020.” MEES understands that the cost of the expansion will be $5-9bn, depending on the finalized scope of the project. In January, Bapco appointed HSBC and BNP Paribas to advise the company on the refinery expansion’s financials. Bapco is not cu...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013