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Iraq Hopes To Slash Products Imports By 60% From Next Year
...cord levels this year. The Karbala project had seen years of delay since its EPC contract was awarded in 2014 to a Korean consortium led by Hyundai Engineering (MEES, 10 January 2014). Former oil minister Thamir al-Ghadhban told MEES in 2019 that delayed payments by the government were the culprit (ME...
Volume: 65Issue: 33Published at Fri, 19 Aug 2022 -
MENA Nuclear Progress Gathering Pace
...mpleted the installation of a second reactor vessel at Barakah in UAE, having completed its first reactor in May 2014. The UAE is building four 1.4GW nuclear plants, which the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) maintains are on schedule for start-up at a rate of one per year in 2017-20. ENEC has in...
Volume: 58Issue: 33Published at Fri, 14 Aug 2015 -
Satorp Refinery Units ‘All Operational’, Says Total
...pears to not yet be onstream. Nevertheless, the refinery’s ramp-up has cut in to Saudi crude exports, whilst boosting products exports to near record levels. Saudi refinery runs averaged 1.85mn b/d during October 2013-May 2014, compared with 1.52mn b/d in the previous eight-month period. Throughputs re...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
Aramco/Sumitomo Agree Handover Of Rabigh-2 To JV Operating Company
...urth quarter of 2014. The existing Petro Rabigh complex produces 18.4mn tons/year of petroleum products and 2.4mn t/y of chemicals. Rabigh-2 will produce up to 4.85mn t/y of high value chemicals. Petro Rabigh estimates the cost of the Rabigh-2 plant at SR32bn ($8.5bn), and says it will be online in 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
Qatar Nears Full GTL Output, Eyes Competitors’ Projects
...tput: “Most of the problems of reliability have been resolved to some extent,” an industry source tells MEES. But the debottlenecking – from tuning various parts, such as pumps – to boost capacity 10% by 2014 may slip back to early 2015, he said. The expansion will give a production capacity of 24...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013