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Oman Aims To Double Products, Petchems Exports
...ports from late next year. Since expanding its 197,000 b/d Sohar refinery in late 2017 (MEES, 23 February 2018), Oman has seen rapid growth in its exports of key refined products – diesel, jet-kerosene, gasoline and LPG – as it seeks to move up the value chain and maximize oil export revenue. Pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2020 -
GCC Downstream Giants Eye Revolutionary Plastics Technology
...mmercialize one of them. Sabic had patented a process to produce chemicals directly from crude using existing downstream units in a new configuration (MEES, 1 December 2017). However, Aramco took a more revolutionary route by developing new technologies. Besides squeezing more out of its resources, Aramco ch...
Volume: 62Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2019 -
Israel’s Gasoline Thirst Pushes Oil Products Consumption To 5-Year High
...• Israel fell into a gasoline deficit for the first time in at least 10 years in 2017 as consumption rose to a record 75,300 b/d whilst domestic output from the country’s two refineries fell by 11% to 73,900 b/d. • Bazan, which operates the 197,000 b/d Haifa refinery, says that it expects th...
Volume: 61Issue: 13Published at Fri, 30 Mar 2018 -
Kuwait Refinery Shuts, New Capacity Delayed, Crude Exports To Rise
...til the start-up of the country’s ambitious $12bn ‘clean fuels project’ refinery expansion and upgrade plans. But this in turn has been pushed back from 2017 to 2018-19, and even the latter timeframe may prove ambitious. KNPC brought forward the Shuaiba shutdown after a series of unscheduled ou...
Volume: 60Issue: 13Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017 -
Egypt Advances Refinery Upgrades As It Looks To Curb Record Fuel Imports
...finery $mn Project KB/D 2016: Assiut 25 Vapor Recovery (LPG) 3.9 2017: Suez 36.5 Vapor Recovery (LP...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Oman Awards Salalah-2 BOO Contract To Mitsui/ACWA
...pacity throughout the country. In the larger Main Interconnected System (MIS), OPWP is tendering for 2.6GW of capacity “across two sites” to start up in 2017-18 (MEES, 29 August 2014). In the isolated northern Musandam exclave, where Oman’s Rural Areas Electricity Company (Raeco) operates 290MW of di...
Volume: 58Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015 -
Orpic Awards Liwa Plastics Project, Targets 2Q18 Start-Up
...gineering, procurement and construction (EPC) tender in December for April 2015 award. Commissioning is slated to begin in fourth quarter 2017, with a view to commercial operation in second quarter 2018. The company expects LPP to double Orpic’s profitability “through extracting significantly more va...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014 -
Turkish Refinery Looks To New Funding As World Bank Pulls Out
...a complex operated by Turkish petrochemical firm Petkim, for 2017 start-up. The plant will have capacity to process 10mn tons/year (200,000 b/d) of crude. STAR shareholders are Socar Turkey, Turkish conglomerate Turcas and the Azerbaijan government. Turcas announced on 25 March that it plans to sell it...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014 -
MENA Refiners Mull New Projects Amid Major Expansion Program
...e at various stages of development in Saudi Arabia, while expansions are under way in the UAE and Oman. Algeria has joined the capacity rush, starting work on the first of four 100,000 b/d refineries due on stream in 2017. Saudi Aramco is nearing completion of the Satorp refinery in Jubail an...
Volume: 56Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2013