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Kuwait’s Al-Zour Refinery Takes Delivery Of Commissioning Crude
...rm KOC into storage tanks at the new Al-Zour refinery in preparation for commissioning. Once operational, Al-Zour will bring Kuwait’s total refining capacity to 1.4mn b/d which is equivalent to nearly half of Kuwait’s approximately 3mn b/d oil production capacity. Prior to the 2017 shutdown of th...
Volume: 63Issue: 49Published at Fri, 04 Dec 2020 -
Aramco India Strategy Hit By $26bn Price Hike At Downstream JV
...uld conceivably include high value products such as those produced by Aramco and US firm Dow at their Sadara plant at Jubail (MEES, 28 July 2017). Reliance is “the world’s largest integrated producer of polyester fibre and yarn.” Other products include polymers, aromatics, elastomers and composite ma...
Volume: 62Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2019 -
Algeria Downstream Deals Reflect Sonatrach Strategy Shift
...Having ended transport fuel imports through a swaps deal, Sonatrach has bought an Italian refinery and is targeting overseas petchems. Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour has adopted a pragmatic approach to Sonatrach’s downstream strategy since taking over as CEO in early 2017. He rapidly canned th...
Volume: 61Issue: 49Published at Fri, 07 Dec 2018 -
Kuwait’s Downstream Diversification Strategy
...tchems long-term – on Oman’s Arabian Sea coast, to which it would supply 150,000 b/d, or 65% of the plant’s feed. With KPC exporting an average 2.03mn b/d of crude in HI 2017, the 350,000 b/d of crude secured for the Vietnam and Oman refineries represent over 17% of total exports. Talks for refining ve...
Volume: 60Issue: 49Published at Fri, 08 Dec 2017 -
Bahrain $4.2b Refinery Deal
...ard EPCC in 1H 2017, with a view to having the plant fully operational by end-2020. Now TechnipFMC says the project is “slated for completion in 2022.” Bapco has recently been running the Sitra plant flat out, with 2016 crude throughputs averaging 261,000 b/d and throughputs for the first three qu...
Volume: 60Issue: 49Published at Fri, 08 Dec 2017 -
Iran Inks Petchems Investment Deals With Japan & China, Shell Adds Upstream MoU
...anian year in March 2017 through short-term usance and medium-terms contracts. NPC investment director Hossein Alimorad says the company is talking with two German companies to open credit lines amounting to €12bn ($13bn), with Japanese firms for a total of €10bn ($11bn) including the Marubeni and It...
Volume: 59Issue: 49Published at Fri, 09 Dec 2016 -
Rabigh 2 Joins Petchems Start-Up Queue, Saudi Capacity Surge Nears
...BIC/Celanese Jubail, S Arabia 2016 50 polyacetal SABIC/Mitsubishi Jubail, S Arabia 2017 250 MMA, 40 PMMA SA...
Volume: 58Issue: 49Published at Fri, 04 Dec 2015 -
Sonatrach To Replace Skikda Plastics Complex
...trochemicals project would face competition for state funding from other downstream plans. Sonatrach recently started building a new refinery at Biskra, the first of four 100,000 b/d plants due onstream in 2017. The company has proposed building a petrochemicals plant alongside the Biskra refinery, which Mr Yo...
Volume: 56Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2013