1. Gulf Arab Producers: We Can Guarantee Energy Security

    ...troleum (QP) to build a $6.4bn petrochemical plant to produce 1.5mn t/y of monoethylene glycol and 300,000 t/y of olefins (see page 17). If the final investment decision is taken the two firms will form a joint venture (Shell 20%, QP 80%) by the end of 2012 and start commissioning the plant in 2017. Qa...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011
  2. Sasol Moves Ahead With Uzbekistan GTL Plant

    ...cision on the 34,000 b/d plant – Sasol 44.5%, Malaysia’s Petronas 11% and state-owned gas producer Uzbekneftegaz 44.5% – will be taken in mid-2013. It would then start up in 2017-18, Ed Cameron, Managing Director of Sasol Synfuels International tells MEES. The consortium will buy dry methane – ma...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011
  3. QP And Shell To Develop $6.5Bn Petchem Complex

    ...oducts manufactured at the new facility will primarily be marketed into East Asian growth markets, the statement added. The project is due to begin operation in 2017. Speaking after the signing, Mr Sada said that the project was part of Qatar’s strategy of building its chemicals industry, and “re...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011
  4. Moody’s Assigns Aa2 Rating To Qatar’s Global Bonds

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIV No 50 12-Dec-2011 QATAR Moody’s Assigns Aa2 Rating To Qatar’s Global Bonds Moody’s Investors Service on 6 December assigned an Aa2 rating to the Qatari government’s recent $5bn global bond offering in three tranches: $2bn due in January 2017...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011
  5. ECAs To Provide $10Bn Of ENEC’s Nuclear Facility Financing

    ...ggested that funding will be requested later in the year, given the amount of money needed to be raised and that this is a new sector, not only for the UAE, but the GCC. The first plant is expected to start operating in 2017. The other three plants are scheduled to be completed and operational by 20...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 50
    Published at Mon, 12 Dec 2011