1. Saudi Aramco Making Good Headway On Gas Exploration

    ...celeration with which gas exploration and development are being pursued – a program that will see the company drilling more than 40 wells a year by 2010, he said. Under current Saudi Aramco plans, gas well completions will rise from 35 in 2006 to 70 in 2011, with exploration wells up from nine in 2006 to 15...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 48
    Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006
  2. Jazan Export Refinery Opens Way For Selective Saudi Private Participation

    ...investments leading to over-capacity. “The fate of projects beyond 2011 will be determined to a great extent by the performance of the industry in the coming few years,” he said. With the Middle East showing the highest ratio of new-build refineries to existing plants the dangers of ov...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 48
    Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006
  3. MENA Refiners’ Capacity Expansion Program Gathers Momentum In 2006

    ...ports. The program includes the construction of three new refineries: a three-train 360,000 b/d condensate splitter plant at Bandar Abbas expected on-stream in 2009; a second crude oil refinery at Bandar Abbas, with throughput capacity of 300,000 b/d, scheduled for completion in 2011 and intended to ha...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 48
    Published at Mon, 27 Nov 2006
  4. Bahr Al-ʹUlum Sees Iraqi Oil Output At 2Mn B/D By End-2005

    ...eaking in Qatar, Dr Bahr al-ʹUlum said Iraq aimed to lift production to 3.5mn b/d within the next two years and on to 6mn b/d by 2011. Addressing delegates at the International Petroleum Technology Conference in Doha, the minister warned that development of the oil sector was intractably linked with po...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 48
    Published at Mon, 28 Nov 2005
  5. Gulf Set To Be World’s Leading Petrochemical Producer/Exporter In 2005, Says Tuwaijri

    ...4mn t/y, due on-stream by 2009 and 2011.   In the UAE, Borealis and ADNOC are planning a 1.2mn t/y cracker to come on-stream in 2009 (MEES, 22/29 December 2003).   In Oman, Dow and the Omani government have announced plans to build and operate a world-scale pe...

    Volume: 47
    Issue: 48
    Published at Mon, 29 Nov 2004
  6. Monetizing Gas Resources: Iran’s Options

    ...e gas network to many major cities around the country. This trend is not likely to continue in the coming decades as gas has reached all the major centres of population by now.The future average yearly growth of gas in this study has been put at 8% between 2001-10, 6% between 2011-20 and 4% between 20...

    Volume: 44
    Issue: 48
    Published at Mon, 26 Nov 2001