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Qatar: 2026 Cracker Start
...nocoPhillips have secured stakes. The LNG expansion project will provide ethane feedstock for RLPP. When announcing the planned facility in 2017, Mr Kaabi told MEES that “for the first time in Qatar we are going to extract ethane before we liquefy. So we are going to have a major petrochemical plant in ad...
Volume: 65Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2022 -
Kuwait Completes Clean Fuels Upgrade With Hydrocracker Installation
...mbined CDU capacity at the two refineries has been increased by 8.8% from 736,000 b/d to 801,000 b/d, while Kuwait also shuttered the ageing 200,000 b/d Shuaiba refinery in March 2017 (MEES, 31 March 2017). Not just is the combined capacity of the two adjacent refineries increased, but the CFO will en...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021 -
Aramco Exits Indonesia’s Cilacap Refining Project, Nears Reliance Deal
...tals conglomerate Sabic, to help fund Riyadh’s Vision 2030 economic transformation. This deal is expected to complete by the end of June (MEES, 15 May). ARAMCO OVERSEAS DOWNSTREAM U/C = UNDER CONSTRUCTION *MOTIVA JV WITH SHELL SPLIT Q2 2017. **SITE CHANGED FROM RATNAGIRI. ^ORIGINALLY CA...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
Saudi Aramco Trading Gets Fujairah Boost
...Saudi Aramco’s trading arm is ramping up activity as the state firm seeks to maximize profitability. A new Singapore office opened in 2017, and this week saw a branch open in the key Mideast bunkering port of Fujairah. As Saudi Aramco looks to develop new revenue streams, the state oil gi...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Ineos Signs Up With Aramco/Total For Satorp Integrated Petchems
...used this phrase in December 2017 to describe a plant to be built in the US for start-up in third quarter 2019 that it also said would have 120,000 t/y capacity and be the “world’s largest single PAO train.” A similar scale here seems likely. The two largest of the Ineos plants will require fe...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Iran: $19bn Korean Deals Threatened As Daelim Pulls Plug Over Funding Woes
...al to be completed – in the near-year between its original signing of the deal at the start of 2017 and Trump entering office (MEES, 13 January 2017). The contract was awarded to Daelim by Iranian state refiner NIORDC in early 2017, with a view to boosting output of light products and reducing fu...
Volume: 61Issue: 23Published at Fri, 08 Jun 2018 -
Sadara Starts First Saudi PMDI, BGE Plants; Targets Polyurethane, Solvent Markets
...lyolefins complex. Petro Rabigh is currently nearing completion of the Rabigh 2 expansion project, which will add a further 2.6mn t/y of petchems capacity, including 1.34mn t/y of paraxylene. Petro Rabigh currently expects to finish building Rabigh 2 in the second half of 2017. SQUEEZING SABIC Ar...
Volume: 60Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2017 -
Iran Taps Koreans For Tabriz Refinery, Eyes $3.3bn Siraf Funding
...though the splitter was originally scheduled to begin production in early 2016, petroleum minister Bijan Zanganeh told reporters this week that start-up is now not expected before the end of September, although a further slip to 2017 looks likely. POST-SANCTIONS DEALS Asian investors in pa...
Volume: 59Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2016