1. GCC Downstream Drive Ploughs On

    ...s for power generation and petrochemicals for its Yanbu΄ project, has yet to receive a gas allocation, MEES understands. And the need for gas could delay the project further. With 48-month construction contracts, the projects will likely start up 2012-13, compared to original 2011 target. The Saudi Oi...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008
  2. Spain’s Befesa Wins $291mn Ténès Water Desalination Project

    ...ild 13 new desalination plants between 2005 and 2009, with a combined capacity of 2.2mn cmd, would now be achieved in 2011, with 1mn cmd of capacity to be operational before the end of 2009. The new 200,000 El-Hamma desalination complex, built by General Electric at a cost of $250mn and thought to be...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008
  3. Construction Of Kazakh Section Of Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Project To Begin In Months

    ...m/year. By the end of 2010 the second pipeline will come into operation, and throughput will rise to 17 bcm/year during 2011. The pipeline is due to reach a capacity of 30 bcm/year in early 2012 and eventually this will rise to 40 bcm/year. “The main point about the pipeline is that it is de...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008
  4. Syria And China Sign New Agreement To Expedite Refinery Project

    ...0,000 b/d joint venture refinery at Abu Khashab, northeast of Deir Ez-Zor by the end of 2011. The refinery, to cost an estimated $1.5bn, will process mainly heavy Syrian crude, as well as other suitable crude to meet European and Syrian specifications. The joint venture project with the Chinese has been un...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008