1. Satorp Gets Cracking With Amiral Petchems Integration

    ...el, LPG, aromatics, propylene and petroleum coke. It was started up in two phases and reached initial full crude distillation capacity of 400,000 b/d in 2014 (MEES, 24 October 2014). Satorp has since been debottlenecked, first to 440,000 b/d in 2018 and again to 460,000 b/d throughput capacity ea...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020
  2. End In Sight For Egypt’s Fuel Subsidies

    ...Egypt has ended fuel subsidies for the majority of oil products, bringing an end to four years of reform that has seen the average price of gasoline almost triple and diesel prices rise by a whopping 514% in local currency terms, since Cairo began removing subsidies on oil products in June 2014...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019
  3. Iraqi Refining Runs, Gasoline Output At 9-Year Low Despite Progress Against IS

    ...roughputs for April and May – at 354,000 b/d and 362,000 b/d respectively – were the two lowest figures since 2007. Until early 2014 refineries in the north of Iraq provided over half of the country’s products output: for 2012 northern runs were 345,000 b/d versus 241,000 b/d for the south (see chart). Bu...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 15 Jul 2016
  4. Algeria Pushes New Refineries Beyond 2020, Fuel Deficit To Worsen

    ...nts to expand its refining capacity to meet domestic demand growth and produce oil products in line with European standards. Demand grew by 7.4% in 2014 and strong growth is expected to continue with Algiers insisting that it will not cut oil product subsidies (MEES, 3 July). Algeria’s total oil pr...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2015
  5. Kuwait Clarifies Al-Zour Plans, Iraq Projects Halted

    ...tes Aramco/Total (Satorp) Jubail, S Arabia 400 2014 First CDU start-up 3Q13, second imminent. Aramco/Sinopec (Yasref) Yanbu’, S Arabia 40...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014
  6. Saudi Firms Award Butanol And Polyacetal Plant Contracts

    ...,000 t/y of iso-butanol.   Project Schedules Saudi Kayan said construction of the butanol plant – which will be the world’s largest and first in the Middle East (MEES, 4 January) – would begin in January 2014, with project completion anticipated in May 2015: “It is scheduled to start its trial ru...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 28
    Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013