1. 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: 63
    Issue: 23
    Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021
  2. Qatar Signs Record-Breaking Deal For LNG Tankers

    ...ney to be able to do that,” Mr Kaabi told MEES in 2017 (MEES, 8 December 2017). This week’s agreements were with Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI). QP says the three “will reserve a major portion of their LNG sh...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 23
    Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020
  3. Turkey Slashes Piped Gas Imports For Cheap LNG

    ...sentially similar to that of Qatar in East Asia. Russia has been reluctant to cut prices in its core markets but as a result has given up market share. Russia had a market share above 50% in Turkey for every year except one between the 2004 start-up of the Blue Stream sub-Black Sea pipeline and 2017. But 20...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 23
    Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020
  4. 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: 63
    Issue: 23
    Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020
  5. Dubai Solar Capacity Tops 1GW

    ...8MW. This too is delayed, missing a first half 2019 start-up target (MEES, 2 June 2017). Germany’s Siemens and Egypt’s Elsewedy meanwhile were awarded a contract to build the 815MW fourth phase of the H-Station plant at Al Aweer, east of Dubai city, but this too has missed its intended in March-Ap...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 23
    Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020