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Kuwait Hopes To Revive Stalled Petchems On Back Of Refinery Upgrade
...$9.7bn (MEES, 26 May 2023). The UK’s Amec Foster Wheeler was awarded a $34mn Feed contract for Olefins-3 and Aromatics-2 back in 2017 (MEES, 19 May 2017). However, the lack of foreign investor interest means a final investment decision has yet to be taken. The firm remains hopeful that it can se...
Volume: 67Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2024 -
Qatar Signs 10-Year Naphtha Deal With Marubeni
...wnstream investments leading to the inauguration of Qatar’s first three export trains in 1996 (MEES, 28 July 2017). However, the contract for Qatargas 1 expired in January 2022, with Marubeni losing its stakes in the project. More recently Marubeni has invested in regional renewable energy projects. Th...
Volume: 66Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 -
Kuwait Commissions Final CFP Refinery Upgrade Units
...ns can now be expected to rise to their highest level since 2016-17’s 821,000 b/d, before the April 2017 closure of the aged 200,000 b/d Shuaiba refinery (MEES, 31 March 2017). FOCUS ON QUALITY KNPC CEO Waleed al-Bader says the project is a “historic milestone” that will allow the “op...
Volume: 64Issue: 39Published at Fri, 01 Oct 2021 -
Egypt Starts Up Gasoline Unit As Part Of Plan To Slash Fuel Imports
...esel, which though they have fallen since peaking in 2016, remain at stubbornly high levels (net imports of 123,000 b/d for diesel and 55,000 b/d for gasoline in Q2 2017 – see chart). The six projects, including the naphtha reformer, will when operational have combined capacity to produce 2....
Volume: 61Issue: 39Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2018 -
Iraq Plots Post-War Refining Rebound
...crude oil has this year exceeded the combined 544,000 b/d nameplate capacity of operational federal refineries, reaching a peak of 591,000 b/d in April and averaging 553,000 b/d for January to July 2017, compared with 446,000 b/d for 2016 (see chart). This was achieved through a deal with the Ku...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Key Project Shelved As Qatar Shifts Petchems Strategy
...500 2017 Linear α-Olefins 300 Oxo-Alcohols 250 Qatofin LLDPE (ex...
Volume: 57Issue: 39Published at Fri, 26 Sep 2014 -
Algeria Advances Refining Expansion With Start Of Biskra Construction
...0,000 b/d set to come onstream by 2017. The Biskra plant will produce 500,000 t/y (11,600 b/d) of gasoline, 220,000 t/y (7,000 b/d) of LPG and 169,000 t/y (3,600 b/d) of Kerosene, according to energy minister Youcef Yousfi, speaking at the launch. Three further plants of “similar” configuration ar...
Volume: 55Issue: 39Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2012