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Saudi Crude Exports Tumble To Ten-Year Lows Amid Deeper Cuts
...proximately 60% of the liquids burned for power generation and water desalination, with crude oil accounting for approximately 40% (see chart 3). This is broadly in line with recent trends, with fuel oil having accounted for more than 50% on an annual basis since 2017. 1: SAUDI CRUDE EXPORTS FELL TO TH...
Volume: 64Issue: 20Published at Fri, 21 May 2021 -
Shell’s Oman GTL Proposal: What’s Changed This Time Around?
...e major upscaling from Bintulu to Pearl, the years of operating Pearl will give guidelines as to how both the technology and the economics of the process can be improved further. Pearl’s early years of service saw several unplanned outages (MEES, 12 May 2017). Global interest in GTL has since wa...
Volume: 62Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2019 -
UAE’s Adnoc Plans $45bn Five-Year Downstream Expansion
....4mn t/y by 2025 under Adnoc’s 2030 Strategy unveiled in November, the strategy is now taking shape (MEES, 1 December 2017). Adnoc says the program will upgrade the Ruwais complex "to produce greater volumes of higher value petrochemicals and derivative products.” Central to the plan is the co...
Volume: 61Issue: 20Published at Fri, 18 May 2018 -
Algeria Advances Downstream Plans
...0,000 t/y polypropylene plant (PP). Sonatrach (51%) and Total (49%) plan to start front-end engineering and design this summer. Feedstock for the PDH unit will be locally produced propane: the requirement will be up to 23,000 b/d. Algeria produced just under 500,000 b/d of NGLs in 2017. Total is a key fo...
Volume: 61Issue: 20Published at Fri, 18 May 2018 -
Iran Taps China For $1.5bn Refinery Upgrade, Warns Over Lack Of Upstream Progress
...pacity is 1.86mn b/d; completion of the three projects would lift crude and condensate processing capacity to 2.85mn b/d. Persian Gulf Star is the most advanced of the three, with NIORDC saying the first of three 120,000 b/d splitters is due to start up by the end of March 2017. Alireza Sadeqabadi, ma...
Volume: 59Issue: 20Published at Fri, 20 May 2016 -
Aramco Boosting Refining Capacity, Plans ‘Value-Maximizing’ Integration
...a short period. In 2014 Aramco also started building a 400,000 b/d refinery at Jazan. Commissioning is due to start in 2017, but this may slip if local security worsens. Satorp is “one of the largest, most complex refineries in the world,” capable of fully converting 400,000 b/d of Arabian Heavy cr...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
IEA Sees Middle East Refiners Adding 2.5Mn B/D Of Capacity In 2013-18
...ant at Yanbu’, originally slated for 2014 completion, is now “scheduled for 2017-18.” Elsewhere, the region’s largest capacity addition will be in the UAE, where a new 420,000 b/d refinery at Ruwais is due online in 2015. “This high-conversion project,” says the report, “will process heavy re...
Volume: 56Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2013