1. KNPC Launches Revised Tender For Fourth Refinery

    ...5,000 b/d refinery at al-Zour in the south of the country. Bidders have until 3 July to submit an expression of interest, with KNPC expecting to make an award in the fourth quarter with the intention of achieving completion and start-up in 2011. The move follows the failure of a first tender launched in 20...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 26
    Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2007
  2. CIOC Announces Kazakh Approval For Work Program In North-West Zhetybai Field

    ...nstruction is set to begin in 2008 and the pipeline is due to be in operation by 2011. Capacity could reach 25-31 bcm/year by 2020. Lukoil intends to invest $3bn by 2012 to build a gas processing facility and 10 retail filling stations in the Russian republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea, ac...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2007
  3. General Electric Wins Compressors Order For Pearl GTL

    ...veloped by Qatar Shell GTL, is designed to produce a total of 140,000 b/d of synthetic fuels and chemicals. Phase 1 of the project is scheduled to start in 1Q 2010 and Phase 2 in 2011, with each phase producing 70,000 b/d of liquids....

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 25
    Published at Mon, 18 Jun 2007
  4. BG Focused On Selling Gaza Gas To Israel After Cabinet Approval

    ...art-up is now envisaged in 2011. The project is expected to generate around $1bn in much needed revenue for the Palestinian Authority. The expected overall costs of implementing the project are still put at around $750mn, a figure that BG came up with more than a year ago. But competition from th...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2007
  5. GdF Looks At Gas Projects In Azerbaijan

    ...ude oil pipeline could rise to 1.6mn b/d by 2011, with the construction of additional pumping stations. BP is to decide during the third quarter of 2007 whether to introduce a drag reduction agent to boost capacity to 1.2mn b/d. Pipeline operator BP is negotiating with producers in Kazakhtan ab...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 24
    Published at Mon, 11 Jun 2007
  6. Suez Rig Plant Inaugurated

    ...06). Three drilling rigs are to be manufactured by the end of 2007, and production capacity will expand gradually, according to the work program, for up to seven rigs in 2008, 10 in 2009, 15 in 2010, and 20 in 2011....

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2007
  7. Iranian Cabinet Approves Plan For Kerman Province Petrochemicals Plants

    ...C) plant at Jiroft; a 300,000 t/y PVC plant at Bardsir; a 600,000 t/y PVC plant at Baft; and a 300,000 t/y polyethylene (PE) plant at Bam. NPC will have a 30% equity stake in the cracker, with the rest to be offered to private investors. The downstream plants are intended to be built during 2011...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2007
  8. QP Signs MOU To Build Refinery In Tunisia

    ...e director of refining at the Tunisian Energy Ministry Brahim Lajimi. “Supplying the rest of the oil is QP’s problem,” Mr Lajimi told MEES. The refinery, whose production will be destined for both local and external markets, is due to be completed in 2011. Tunisia’s 34,000 b/d Bizerte refinery is...

    Volume: 50
    Issue: 23
    Published at Mon, 04 Jun 2007