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  1. Israel Oil 2018 Data: Gasoline Imports At Record On Refinery Outage

    ...62mn tons (77,000 b/d) or 2017, a year that saw renovation, a strike and a fire at one of its diesel units (MEES, 1 September 2017). Paz increased its crude throughput capacity from 4.5mn tons (90,000 b/d) in late 2013 (MEES, 29 August 2014). *But overall, the gains at Paz were not enough to make up...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019

  2. Iraq’s Downstream Dreams: Back To Square One?

    ...e long-delayed Karbala refinery is the only new refinery making any progress at present. Work on the $6bn 150,000 b/d project was awarded to Hyundai in 2014 (MEES, 10 January 2014) per an EPC contract, but payment problems saw the project – once slated for a 2019 start-up – delayed. Mr Ghadhban te...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019

  3. Aramco/Sabic Make Up With Plan For Joint Oil-To-Chemicals Project

    ...presents a big step along the way. Announcing the start up of the cracker in January 2014, ExxonMobil Chemical president Stephen Pryor told Reuters it is “by far the most feed-flexible cracker we’ve ever built. It can crack anything from light gases to heavy liquids, including crude oil.” Sabic has been st...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016

  4. Gulf Refining Activity Slowing After Completion Of Three Mega-Projects

    ...e Aramco/Total Satorp plant was completed in mid-2014 and the Aramco/Sinopec Yasref plant is building crude runs after starting up in fourth quarter 2014. The refineries take Saudi crude processing capacity to 2.91mn b/d and are enabling a hike in non-crude exports: gross product exports reached 1....

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015

  5. Egypt Signs Contract With Axens For Assiut Gasoline Unit

    ...tane gasoline and 200 b/d of butane. Petroleum Minister Sharif Isma’il says the project is part of the ministry’s plan to upgrade existing plants to increase production capacity to meet local market needs. He says the CCR will help reduce gasoline imports. Egypt imported 69,000 b/d of gasoline in 2014...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015

  6. Sipchem Finishes Gulf’s First EVA/LDPE Plant

    ...other Sipchem affiliate. The 75,000 t/y butanediol plant has been debottlenecked to provide feedstock for the PBT unit (MEES, 11 April 2014). Meanwhile, equal partners Sadara (Saudi Aramco/Dow Chemical), Saudi Kayan and Saudi Acrylic Acid Company (SAAC) aim to begin trial  operations in the third qu...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015

  7. Saudi Petchems: Smaller Plants Advance

    ...th a view to 2014 start-up....

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014