1. Oman Refining Output Collapses To Three-Year Low In Q2

    ...port revenues for the financially challenged sultanate. Oil products exports brought in $2.71bn and $2.41bn in 2018 and 2019 respectively (a not insignificant 10% of total oil and gas export revenues), up from just $1bn in 2017 (MEES, 27 March). But, like many other facets of the oil industry, the co...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020
  2. Kuwait In IMO 2020-Inspired Al Zour Rethink

    ...vised RFCC unit’s capacity will be 98,000 b/d. The upgrading project eventually moved forward in 2017 when UOP was awarded projects for a 50,000 b/d RFCC, a 66,000 b/d CCR and 74,000 b/d naphtha hydrotreater within the Al Zour complex (MEES, 8 December 2017). These latter two units will also likely se...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019
  3. Cash-Rich Gulf State Refiners Seek Overseas Capacity, Integration

    ...18mn b/d, while refinery throughputs have risen from 5.41mn b/d in 2009 to a record 7.18mn b/d in 2017 (see charts). Gulf refinery throughputs averaged around 6.97mn b/d in the first half of 2018 but this figure is likely to increase as consumption of fuels for both power generation and transport rises du...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018
  4. Kuwait Delivering First Crude Cargo To Vietnam Refinery, Eyes Global Expansion

    ...%) 248 248 124 Nghi Son, Vietnam (35.1%, 2017) n/a 200 70...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017
  5. New Gulf Refineries To Make Middle East Major Products Exporter

    ...18 36 Karbala Iraq 140 2019 Mid-19 - Jazan S Arabia 400 2017 20...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014
  6. Kuwait JV Awards Foster Wheeler Vietnam Refinery PMC

    ...nstruction contractor (EPC) consortium through to the completion of performance testing.” Foster Wheeler carried out front end engineering for the project under a contract awarded in July 2008. Total investment will be $9bn with commercial operations due to begin in 2017, Foster Wheeler says. The plant will ha...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 31
    Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013