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Key Sadara Chemicals Pipeline Boosts PlasChem Operations
...p). The Sadara complex is centered around a 1.9mn t/y mixed-feed cracker, which is able to process up to 53,000 b/d of naphtha and 85mn cfd of ethane and an aromatics plant producing 280,000 t/y of benzene and 134,000 t/y of toluene. The final Sadara unit started operations in 2017 (MEES, 18 August 2017...
Volume: 65Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2022 -
Kuwait Eyes First Exports After Clean Fuels Upgrade
...726,000 b/d at two plants in March 2017, when KNPC shuttered the 200,000 b/d Shuaiba refinery after a series of unscheduled outages. Once CFP is finished Kuwait’s next refining capacity increase will come at a new 615,000 b/d refinery at Al-Zour. This is running behind schedule, with start-up ac...
Volume: 63Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2020 -
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: 62Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2019 -
Algeria’s Planned Hassi Messaoud Refinery: Chinese, Korean Firms In The Running
...trojet. The planned Hassi Messaoud refinery is the only remaining element of once-ambitious plans to build four new 5mn t/y refineries. The original target date was 2017 (MEES, 21 September 2012), but this came and went with the 2016 award of a FEED contract to Amec Foster Wheeler subsequently cancelled. So...
Volume: 61Issue: 22Published at Fri, 01 Jun 2018 -
Adnoc Strengthens OMV Ties With Abu Dhabi Downstream Expansion Plans
...oduce a broader range of chemicals. Borealis says a final investment decision (FID) for Borouge 4 would likely be taken “around the end of 2017” with a view to plant start-up around five years after FID. Borouge also plans another polypropylene plant, PP5, which it aims to approve in 2017 to be “up an...
Volume: 60Issue: 22Published at Fri, 02 Jun 2017 -
Aramco Looks To Build On Record Output With ‘New Era’ Of Integration
...tchems volumes do not include two big projects which are due online in 2016 and 2017. Although Sadara started up its first polyethylene unit in December 2015, no commercial production took place. The 2.6mn t/y Rabigh 2 expansion joint venture with Japan’s Sumitomo is due to begin commissioning this year, al...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016 -
Aramco Steps Up Petchems Challenge To Sabic
...provide basic engineering and proprietary furnace technology for a new cracker, which is being built by Taiwan’s CTCI under an engineering, procurement and construction contract. Sabic says the cracker is expected to cost $94.5mn and is scheduled for completion in the second half of 2017. The cr...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016 -
Iran To Start Building Siraf Condensate Splitters, Targets Asia Petchems
...0 8 x 60 kb/d splitters. Target first unit online 2018. Persian Gulf Star Bandar Abbas 360 1.5 3 x 120 kb/d splitters. First unit expected online 2017. Pa...
Volume: 58Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2015 -
Turkey’s Petkim Readies For Integration Of STAR Refinery
...ochu, under a $3.5bn engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract. Petkim plans to start up the plant in the first half of 2017 and does not foresee a shutdown for the hook-up of the two plants. Tecnicas Reunidas says the refinery will produce 4.8mn t/y of ultra-low su...
Volume: 57Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2014 -
Saudi Refineries Output 2013
...amco 62.5%, Sinopec 37.5% 400 from 2017 Ja...
Volume: 57Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2014 -
Iraqi Petchem Prospects Hinge On Refinery Integration
...-50bn over the period 2017-23 in building total petrochemicals capacity of 10mn tons/year. “Of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar and others are already producing petrochemicals,” he said. “Those in charge in Baghdad have to consider this and what is happening in refining and the potential for integration. Ne...
Volume: 56Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2013