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Egypt Refinery Upgrades Edge Forward
...west figures since 2017, whilst the latest figures for June are only slightly higher (see chart). For 2023, national throughputs of 530,000 b/d were just 70% of the country’s then primary distillation capacity of 760,000 b/d. The most recent by-company runs figures, for the 2022-23 financial ye...
Volume: 67Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2024 -
Lebanon Hooked On Diesel Imports Amid Financial Crisis
...shington earlier this year for “importing tainted fuel, causing significant harm to Lebanese power plants.” Interestingly, between 2017 and 2020 Lebanon’s fuel oil shipments originated mainly from the United States followed by several European countries including Belgium, Netherlands, and Spain. Ga...
Volume: 66Issue: 35Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2023 -
Aramco Eyes Chinese Take-Away From Sabic Purchase
...e polyurethane components and other chemicals manufactured at the Sadara joint venture plant of Aramco and US firm Down Chemical in the Saudi downstream hub of Jubail (MEES, 28 July 2017). Indeed China, and Asia more generally, are also key buyers from Saudi refineries. However, the focus has be...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Iran Eyes New Partner For Tabriz Refinery Upgrade
...zaj suggests the demise of an August 2017 heads of agreement with Korea’s SK Engineering & Construction for a $1.9bn upgrade of Tabriz (MEES, 11 August 2017). SK has made no announcement. But Tabriz appears to be the second Iranian refining project from which a Korean firm has withdrawn in the fa...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Iraq Readies Baiji Unit
...rect crude burn in power plants, it is replacing the crude with heavy fuel oil from refineries. In 1H 2018, Iraq burned 289,000 b/d of fuel oil – compared with 199,000 b/d in 1H 2017 – out of a total 334,000 b/d of oil burned (MEES, 24 August). Restarting Salahuddin-1 would boost Iraq’s operable cr...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Israel Refiners Pump At Record Levels
...erating at or above 100% capacity for over a year, Paz saw output dip in Q2 with the June completion of an off -gas recovery unit. The unit began operation in July, with Paz “now close to operating at full capacity,” the firm says in its Q2 report, released this week. In 2017 Israel consumed more ga...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Israel Products Output Down 17% Amid Maintenance, Strike
...The operators of Israel’s two refineries say scheduled maintenance was the key reason their output fell by a combined 50,000 b/d (17%) year-on-year in the first half of 2017. But a strike in June didn’t help. A diesel unit fire last month added to the woe. The smaller of Israel’s two re...
Volume: 60Issue: 35Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2017 -
Sabic Agrees Principles For China Coal-To-Chemicals JV
...ll process coal produced locally in Ningxia to produce chemicals aimed at “highly differentiated applications and segments through polymer derivatives.” SNGC is already building a coal-to-chemicals plant in Ningxia. This is scheduled for start-up in 2017 and will incorporate a 1.4mn tons/year cr...
Volume: 59Issue: 35Published at Fri, 02 Sep 2016