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Oman: Sohar Refinery Back Online
...at predate the plant’s expansion in 2017 (MEES, 17 February). Due to the outage, OQ was forced to sell 1mn barrels of crude on a prompt tender to load at the end of the month, according to Reuters (MEES, 9 August). A trading source says that the impact was limited and only affected gasoline ex...
Volume: 67Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2024 -
Aramco Restarts Malaysia CDU
...efChem partners have also begun processing imported naphtha to test the project’s 1.2mn t/y cracker (MEES, 5 July). Aramco paid Petronas $7bn for a 50% stake in PrefChem in February 2017, at which time it was called the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project. The deal enables Ar...
Volume: 62Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2019 -
Oman LNG Taps New Markets
...Oman’s LNG exports* to its six key Asian customers hit a five-year high of 4.39mn tons for 1H 2018, up 3.2% on 1H 2017, in turn the highest since 2013 (see chart). This comes as the country’s gas production has soared to record levels (MEES, 17 August). These six key customers between them ac...
Volume: 61Issue: 34Published at Fri, 24 Aug 2018 -
Yemen: Japan Takes Omv Cargo
...ptember 2017), with output coming from state-operated Blocks 10 and 14 in the country’s Masila basin. Exports averaged 42,300 b/d in 2017 but a dearth of by-country import data since March from key buyer China complicates more recent estimates. ...
Volume: 61Issue: 34Published at Fri, 24 Aug 2018 -
Total Exits Iran’s South Pars
...French major Total on 20 August confirmed its withdrawal from a $4.8bn 20-year deal to develop the 2bn cfd Phase 11 of Iran’s South Pars gas field (MEES, 7 June 2017), saying it was unable to secure a waiver from US sanctions (MEES, 10 August). Total, as operator with 50.1%, said in May it ha...
Volume: 61Issue: 34Published at Fri, 24 Aug 2018 -
Norway LNG Returns To Kuwait
...Kuwait may have halted its submissions of gas data to JODI – and of oil – but despite the dearth of data, summer imports of LNG for power generation show no sign of easing. While Qatar has traditionally been the dominant supplier, providing 43% of the 3.5mn ton total in 2017, Kuwait has so...
Volume: 61Issue: 34Published at Fri, 24 Aug 2018