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Trade In The Med: More Hubs, New Ship-to-Ship Zones
...prus’ rise as a regional gasoline blending hub via its 545,000 m3 (3.4mn barrel) VTTV storage facility at Vasiliko. Vitol, which owns 45% of VTTI alongside IFM Investors (45%) and Adnoc (10%), heavily touted VTTV’s potential when it first began operating in 2014 (MEES, 31 October 2014). But it’s taken th...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
Morocco’s Samir Refinery: Is There A Case For A Restart?
...wards trend save for a Covid related blip in 2020. Total products demand recovered to near record levels of above 290,000 b/d last year. Diesel imports, a fuel globally in high demand, for example hit a record 126,000 b/d in 2021 (see chart 1). In its last full year of operations in 2014, Samir pr...
Volume: 65Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 -
Mideast Refining Capacity Edges Up, Runs Fall
...st ambitious expansion plan – three 400,000 b/d capacity refineries, due onstream in 2013, 2014 and 2016. The UAE is building a 417,000 b/d plant which is due onstream in 2014, while Algeria’s Sonatrach has announced a plan to build four 100,000 b/d capacity refineries for 2017 start-up. Also Oman is lo...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013