1. Gulf Refiners Push 2.7Mn B/D Crude Processing Hike By End-2025

    ...udi Arabia which will lift the kingdom’s refining capacity to 3.3mn b/d. The refinery was originally due online in 2017 (MEES, 28 February 2014) and its planned late-2019 start up may yet slip into 2020 (MEES, 22 February). However, the project looks more likely to come online this year with Iraq’s pl...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2019
  2. Aramco Looks To Build On Record Output With ‘New Era’ Of Integration

    ...th 2014 – see p18). With the two new refineries targeting export markets, Saudi net products exports soared by 38% to 635,000 b/d according to the Aramco data, which unlike the Jodi data (500,000 b/d for 2015) appears to include field LPG. The Jodi data show gross 2015 products exports of 1....

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016
  3. Iran To Start Building Siraf Condensate Splitters, Targets Asia Petchems

    ...nstrained finances are unlikely to enable completion before 2017. NIORDC earlier began design work for the 120,000 b/d Pars splitter at Shiraz, but this has been put on the back burner along with five oil refineries with a combined capacity of 1.08mn b/d (MEES, 8 August 2014). While funding these pr...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 29 May 2015
  4. Egypt P’chem Funding

    ...phtha. The company has also clinched a $500mn deal with General Electric, in which the US engineering giant will provide technology and an undisclosed amount of equity (MEES, 4 April 2014). While Tahrir dwarves many other Egyptian downstream projects, Carbon Holdings is also seeking smaller financing de...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 29 May 2015
  5. Turkey’s Petkim Readies For Integration Of STAR Refinery

    ...8,000 t/y and PTA capacity to 105,000 t/y. Basic engineering and procurement have been largely completed, and construction work is expected to start in 2014. The $5.5bn STAR refinery is being built by Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas, Italy’s Saipem, South Korea’s GS Engineering and Construction and Japan’s It...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 30 May 2014
  6. Saudi Refining Output Down In 2013, Major Integration Under Way

    ...benzene and propylene. At Yanbu’, the Yasref refinery, being built by Aramco and China’s Sinopec, has “made significant progress towards start-up in 2014.” The 400,000 b/d plant will be Saudi Arabia’s “most advanced refinery,” processing Arabian Heavy crude into high quality gasoline, diesel, LPG an...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 30 May 2014
  7. Saudi Refineries Output 2013

    ...tal   *2505 85.1 91.7 -6.5 from Sep 2014           Yasref, Yanbu Ar...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 30 May 2014
  8. Libya Eyes $80bn Downstream Drive

    ...oadly diversified.” Three petchem complexes are envisaged; in Mellitah and Zawiya in the west and at Benghazi in the east. Of the latter site Dr Ellob notes: “It is near population centers and can help create jobs.” Estimated costs for the three complexes, to be built in 2014-25, are $50-60bn. All three pe...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 22
    Published at Fri, 31 May 2013