1. Samsung Engineering Wins EPC Contract For Bahrain Base Oil Plant

    ...l shipping port exists, will have a capacity of 400,000 tons/year of very high viscosity index (VHVI) base oil for use in lubricants blending, and is scheduled to be completed by April 2011. Total investment in the project is expected be around $430mn. The contract is Samsung’s first in Ba...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 34
    Published at Mon, 25 Aug 2008
  2. Sudan Appoints Abyei Administration Amid Tentative Signs Of Political Progress

    ...ntrol Risks Group Wolfram Lacher. “But it does represent a positive development, and suggests that cooperation between both sides is improving.” Presidential and parliamentary elections, to be held between January and April of next year, leading to the referendum on southern independence in 2011, ar...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 33
    Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008
  3. Greece Emerges As Major Gas Player With Participation In South Stream Pipeline

    ...ropean market. On 16 April Iraq’s Oil Minister Husain al-Shahristani promised to export at least 5 bcm/y of gas to the European market by 2011, according to a statement issued by Mr Piebalgs’ office. Dr Shahristani did not specify the routing through which exports would reach Europe or the pr...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 33
    Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008
  4. Agrium, Egyptian Government Reach Agreement On Eagrium Project

    ...pacity to approximately 2mn t/y of urea. Agrium’s share of production would be 175,000 t/y of urea until the expansion is complete in 2011, after which it would increase to approximately 525,000 t/y. “We anticipate earning contributions to commence in the fourth quarter of this year. The original Ea...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 33
    Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008
  5. Nematzadeh Announces Finalization Of Contract For New Condensate Refinery

    ...ndensate splitters, is expected to start up in 2011 (MEES, 14 April)....

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 33
    Published at Mon, 18 Aug 2008
  6. MENA LNG Production Limited By Rising Local Demand And Ageing Facilities

    ...mpletion until 2011 and 2012 respectively (MEES, 4 August). LNG Plants Competing For Gas A relative newcomer to the LNG industry, Egypt made a dramatic entrance with the commissioning in 2005 of two 3.6mn t/y trains at Idku and one 5mn t/y train at Damietta. The Egyptian LNG (ELNG) trains at Idku, jo...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 32
    Published at Mon, 11 Aug 2008
  7. Ras Laffan C IWPP Signs Financing Agreement, Islamic Banks Join Group

    ...ild-operate-transfer (BOT) project is key to Qatar’s needs. It will produce 2.73gw of power and 63mn gal/day of clean water, supplying the country with about one third of its estimated 9.0gw power needs by 2011. The obligations of offtaker Kahramaa are guaranteed by the Qatari state (sovereign ra...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 32
    Published at Mon, 11 Aug 2008
  8. GDF Suez Awarded $5.6Bn Contract For Shuweihat 2 Power And Desalination Plant

    ...osan, and Samsung on 21 July, he added. Completion and start-up of the Shuweihat 2 plant is scheduled for 2011. GDF Suez owns 40% of Shuweihat 2, with Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) holding 60%. All power and desalinated water will be purchased by the Abu Dhabi Water and El...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 32
    Published at Mon, 11 Aug 2008
  9. UAE Needs To Spend Over $10Bn To Meet Rising Power Demand, Says BMI

    ...port 2008. Dubai alone will have to boost its power generating capacity to 9.5gw by 2010, said the report. Power consumption in Dubai increased by almost 30% in 2006, according to the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). The UAE will account for 5.77% of regional power generation by 2011, sa...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 32
    Published at Mon, 11 Aug 2008
  10. Global Refining Capacity Expected To Expand To 2013

    ...10 1 160,000 Texas Port Arthur Motiva 2011 1 325,000 India Vadinar Essar Oil 2012 1 420,000 India Paradip Indian Oil Corporation 2012 1 30...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 31
    Published at Mon, 04 Aug 2008
  11. UN Attempts To Rescue Sudan’s Faltering Comprehensive Peace Agreement

    ...d the south in order to hold a census, which will in turn enable elections in 2009 and a referendum on unity in 2011. Like the ICG, the Small Arms Survey, a Swiss-based independent research group, warns in a report published in July that the border demarcation and census are far behind schedule, wh...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 34
    Published at Mon, 20 Aug 2007
  12. Spain Relents On Medgaz But Algeria Seeks Mediation On Gassi Touil

    ...o-year freeze on the construction of the Arzew plant, instead transporting the gas by pipeline between 2009 and 2011. Cinco Dias says Sonatrach asked the Paris Chamber of Arbitration in July to mediate in the dispute, hoping that it will find a solution acceptable to the various parties wi...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 33
    Published at Mon, 13 Aug 2007
  13. Supply/Demand Fundamentals Will Trigger OPEC Output Hike, Says ESAI

    ...til 2011-12, when falling spare capacity once again supports the crude markets. Refining: The massive investment in new refining capacity coming on-stream in the next few years should bring refining margins down sharply from their current highs. The market is poised for a major correction. Ga...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 33
    Published at Mon, 13 Aug 2007
  14. Shaw Group Wins LPG FEED Contract At Hassi Messaoud

    ...cility at the giant Hassi Messaoud oilfield in Algeria. The US engineering company said it expected the facility to be commissioned in 2011. Algeria is one of the world’s top LPG producers, with a current annual output of around 9mn tons. ...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 33
    Published at Mon, 13 Aug 2007
  15. Foster Wheeler Wins Karan Gas Plant FEED Contract

    ...ream in 2011. The new onshore facilities are expected to deliver sales gas to meet the growing Saudi demand for gas. In addition, a small percentage of the sales gas will be utilized for the plant fuel and 640 ton/day of sulfur will be produced. The facilities will comprise gas processing trains, an...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 33
    Published at Mon, 13 Aug 2007
  16. Saudi Aramco And Partners Sign Yanbu' And Jubail Export Refinery Contracts

    ...pointed Halliburton subsidiary KBR to carry out front-end engineering for the planned $6bn export refinery in Yanbu' (MEES, 29 May). The Yanbu' Export Refinery, scheduled for completion in 2011, will be designed to process 400,000 b/d of Arabian Heavy crude oil, producing motor fuels and other re...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 28 Aug 2006
  17. NIORDC Clarifies Iran’s Crude Distillation Capacity Expansion Plan

    ...UD Distillation Kermanshah Expansion 2009 18 Early stage Distillation Bandar Abbas New Refinery 2011 160 UD...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 34
    Published at Mon, 21 Aug 2006
  18. First Kazakh Crude Arrives At PetroChina’s Dushanzi Petrochemical Plant

    ...mn t/y (400,000 b/d) by 2011 and deliveries may eventually include crude oil from Russia. Plans call for the pipeline to be extended in Kazakhstan to the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, making its entire length around 3,000km (MEES, 29 May) A crude oil refinery at the Dushazi complex, with a ca...

    Volume: 49
    Issue: 32
    Published at Mon, 07 Aug 2006
  19. Condensate Impacts On East Of Suez Crude And Naphtha

    ...tlook (‘000 B/D) Current Study 2002 Study 2001 2002 2003 2008 2013 2001 2006 2011 Mideast Gu...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 35
    Published at Mon, 29 Aug 2005
  20. Future Of Sudan’s Oil Sector Remains Uncertain Despite Political Progress

    ...ar al-Bashir, ending the pre-interim period agreed in January’s peace deal, and beginning the six-year interim period which is intended to end in 2011 with a referendum in the south on self-determination. On 19 July, Dr Garang dissolved the administrative structures in the south ahead of the fo...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 31
    Published at Mon, 01 Aug 2005