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Aramco Eyes Major Ethylene-Based Texas Expansion
...creasingly in demand in the automotive market (MEES, 28 July 2017). Satorp refinery already has aromatics capacity, delivering up to 1mn t/y of paraxylene, benzene and propylene. The Satorp partners are building an 800,000 t/y polyethylene plant as part of the integration, but are offering some of the cr...
Volume: 62Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2019 -
Aramco Targets Indian Refinery JV End-2018 In Major Investment Push
...to a market where it has this year lost its position as top crude supplier to Iraq. India is the world’s third largest oil importer, buying an average 4.26mn b/d for the first seven months of 2017. But whilst India’s overall imports are up 3% year-on-year, those from Saudi Arabia, at 728,000 b/d for Ja...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Liwa Plastics Delayed To 2020
...ogram. The company is also spending $2.1bn on expanding – from 116,000 b/d to 197,000 b/d – and upgrading its Sohar refinery. The schedule here has also slipped, from 2016 to Q1 2017 (MEES, 19 August), with the UK’s Petrofac and Korea’s Daelim the key contractors. Orpic is also building 290km of 93...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
Aramco Advances Downstream Plans With Petro Rabigh, Sadara Progress
...me in next year and the chemicals plants – polyurethanes intermediates and polyurethanes products – in 2016 and into 2017.” Sadara’s cracker will be the first in the Middle East to process naphtha – the project has feedstock agreements in place for up to 53,000 b/d of naphtha and 85mn cfd of et...
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015 -
Algeria Launches Biskra Amid Problems For North African Refiners
...9bn). Algeria plans to tender for identical refineries at Biskra and Tiaret, and has set a 2017 start-up target for these and similar refineries at Ghardia and Messaoud. Minister of Energy and Mines Yousef Yousfi has also said that Biskra could form the core of a regional petrochemical hub (MEES, 15 Ma...
Volume: 56Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013