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Algeria-Spain Spat Leaves 1.26GW Power Plant In Limbo
...lguera,” adding that it is now seeking “a definitive solution for all parties.” The project was originally awarded back in 2014 at a price tag of $719mn (MEES, 7 March 2014), with civil works completed by end-2016 (MEES, 15 September 2017). Satellite imagery indicates that substantial work has taken pl...
Volume: 67Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 -
Qatar: 2026 Cracker Start
...nocoPhillips have secured stakes. The LNG expansion project will provide ethane feedstock for RLPP. When announcing the planned facility in 2017, Mr Kaabi told MEES that “for the first time in Qatar we are going to extract ethane before we liquefy. So we are going to have a major petrochemical plant in ad...
Volume: 65Issue: 23Published at Fri, 10 Jun 2022 -
Key Sadara Chemicals Pipeline Boosts PlasChem Operations
...p). The Sadara complex is centered around a 1.9mn t/y mixed-feed cracker, which is able to process up to 53,000 b/d of naphtha and 85mn cfd of ethane and an aromatics plant producing 280,000 t/y of benzene and 134,000 t/y of toluene. The final Sadara unit started operations in 2017 (MEES, 18 August 2017...
Volume: 65Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2022 -
Kuwait Completes Clean Fuels Upgrade With Hydrocracker Installation
...mbined CDU capacity at the two refineries has been increased by 8.8% from 736,000 b/d to 801,000 b/d, while Kuwait also shuttered the ageing 200,000 b/d Shuaiba refinery in March 2017 (MEES, 31 March 2017). Not just is the combined capacity of the two adjacent refineries increased, but the CFO will en...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021 -
Ecomar Thinks Big After Fujairah Refinery Start-Up
...vernment in 2007. Germany’s Uniper reached commercial operation of a 67,000 b/d refinery in 2017 (see map). Two plans to build refineries at Fujairah came to nothing. Former Abu Dhabi investment house IPIC abandoned a planned 200,000 b/d conventional refinery in 2016, before its merger with Mubadala (ME...
Volume: 63Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020 -
Aramco Exits Indonesia’s Cilacap Refining Project, Nears Reliance Deal
...tals conglomerate Sabic, to help fund Riyadh’s Vision 2030 economic transformation. This deal is expected to complete by the end of June (MEES, 15 May). ARAMCO OVERSEAS DOWNSTREAM U/C = UNDER CONSTRUCTION *MOTIVA JV WITH SHELL SPLIT Q2 2017. **SITE CHANGED FROM RATNAGIRI. ^ORIGINALLY CA...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
Aramco Crude Oil To Chemicals Vision Takes Shape
...chnology; and 2025 may be a push as Aramco’s COTC technologies are so far not commercialized. Aramco and Sabic were developing crude-to-chemicals technologies separately before they signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in November 2017 to develop the COTC plant under a joint venture. Sabic filed a pa...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019 -
Iran Looks To Protect Lucrative Petchems Earnings From Tightening US Sanctions
...reements with foreign firms for a variety of petchems plants (MEES, 11 August 2017 and MEES, 17 March 2017). Among the firms signing agreements, Denmark’s Haldor Topsoe has since closed its Tehran office (MEES, 31 August 2018), while the other seven projects have not progressed further. One of these wa...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Saudi Aramco Trading Gets Fujairah Boost
...Saudi Aramco’s trading arm is ramping up activity as the state firm seeks to maximize profitability. A new Singapore office opened in 2017, and this week saw a branch open in the key Mideast bunkering port of Fujairah. As Saudi Aramco looks to develop new revenue streams, the state oil gi...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Ineos Signs Up With Aramco/Total For Satorp Integrated Petchems
...used this phrase in December 2017 to describe a plant to be built in the US for start-up in third quarter 2019 that it also said would have 120,000 t/y capacity and be the “world’s largest single PAO train.” A similar scale here seems likely. The two largest of the Ineos plants will require fe...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Adnoc Joins Aramco In $44bn Indian Refining And Petchems Venture
...dian firms will hold 50% equity (IOC with 25%, BPCL and HPCL each with 12.5%). RRPCL was formed by the Indian firms in June 2017 to develop a 1.2mn b/d refinery comprising three 400,000 b/d crude distillation units (CDUs), which will be integrated with an 18mn tons/year petchems complex. While Ad...
Volume: 61Issue: 26Published at Fri, 29 Jun 2018 -
Saudi Petchems JVs Get Greedy For Naphtha, Cutting Into Exports
...om the integrated 400,000 b/d Petro Rabigh refinery (MEES, 20 April). RUNS FALL Some of the reduction in naphtha availability after January can be attributed to lower refinery runs, which fell away from the December 2017 record of 2.828mn b/d to just 2.200mn b/d for April. Work at two re...
Volume: 61Issue: 25Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018 -
Egypt Looks To Delayed Midor Expansion, ERC Start-Up To Ease Products Shortfall
...0,000 b/d in 2017 while gasoline imports averaged 90,000 b/d (MEES, 26 January 2018). While additional Midor capacity could cover just 8% of 2017 diesel imports and 13% of gasoline, next year’s planned start-up of the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC) 81,500 b/d hydrocracker, will make a sizable dent in th...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Iran: $19bn Korean Deals Threatened As Daelim Pulls Plug Over Funding Woes
...al to be completed – in the near-year between its original signing of the deal at the start of 2017 and Trump entering office (MEES, 13 January 2017). The contract was awarded to Daelim by Iranian state refiner NIORDC in early 2017, with a view to boosting output of light products and reducing fu...
Volume: 61Issue: 23Published at Fri, 08 Jun 2018 -
Algeria’s Planned Hassi Messaoud Refinery: Chinese, Korean Firms In The Running
...trojet. The planned Hassi Messaoud refinery is the only remaining element of once-ambitious plans to build four new 5mn t/y refineries. The original target date was 2017 (MEES, 21 September 2012), but this came and went with the 2016 award of a FEED contract to Amec Foster Wheeler subsequently cancelled. So...
Volume: 61Issue: 22Published at Fri, 01 Jun 2018 -
Baghdad-KRG Refining Deal Eases Light Products Shortfall
...nths of 2017. Diesel demand has averaged just short of 100,000 b/d in January-April 2017. Recent improvements in reducing gas flaring have significantly cut the need to burn diesel in power plants at times of peak electricity demand (see chart 4). Iraq’s refineries are relatively unsophisticated – th...
Volume: 60Issue: 25Published at Fri, 23 Jun 2017 -
Aramco Seeks Talks On Indian Refinery, Part Of Asian Downstream Push
...649 1,480 *MOTIVA SPLIT IN Q2 2017 GAVE SHELL 100% OF CONVENT & NORCO REFINERIES, ARAMCO 100% OF PORT ARTHUR. ^ARAMCO OWNS 63.4% OF S-OIL WITH THE REMAINDER FLOATED. SOURCE: SAUDI ARAMCO, PARTNERS. RECENT DEALS Aramco’s interest in the Indian downstream is also in line wi...
Volume: 60Issue: 24Published at Fri, 16 Jun 2017 -
Sadara Starts First Saudi PMDI, BGE Plants; Targets Polyurethane, Solvent Markets
...lyolefins complex. Petro Rabigh is currently nearing completion of the Rabigh 2 expansion project, which will add a further 2.6mn t/y of petchems capacity, including 1.34mn t/y of paraxylene. Petro Rabigh currently expects to finish building Rabigh 2 in the second half of 2017. SQUEEZING SABIC Ar...
Volume: 60Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2017 -
Adnoc Strengthens OMV Ties With Abu Dhabi Downstream Expansion Plans
...oduce a broader range of chemicals. Borealis says a final investment decision (FID) for Borouge 4 would likely be taken “around the end of 2017” with a view to plant start-up around five years after FID. Borouge also plans another polypropylene plant, PP5, which it aims to approve in 2017 to be “up an...
Volume: 60Issue: 22Published at Fri, 02 Jun 2017 -
Egypt To Start Up Key Ethylene Plant, If It Can Find The Gas
...April. MEES expects Egyptian supply will bottom out at 3.6bn cfd in 2017. Egypt is looking to new field developments and LNG imports to boost Egypt’s gas availability in the medium term, but the shortfall is likely to persist until the end of the decade at least (MEES, 17 June). Egas estimates th...
Volume: 59Issue: 25Published at Fri, 24 Jun 2016