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Libya’s Crippled Refining Sector Struggles To Meet Demand
...meplate capacity (see table 1). The bulk of current output, which meets only about half of the country’s domestic consumption, comes from the 120,000 b/d Zawiya refinery west of Tripoli. Even before the 2011 revolution Libya’s refining fleet was in desperate need of upgrades due to Gaddafi-era sa...
Volume: 64Issue: 09Published at Fri, 05 Mar 2021 -
Aramco Pays Petronas $7bn For 50% Stake In Rapid Project
...uthwestern Yunnan province, having signed a memorandum of understanding in March 2011. CNPC has finished building the 260,000 b/d refinery, the first in the landlocked province, and aims to import crude for the plant via a spur line from the 2,400km, 440,000 b/d Myanmar-China pipeline, which will receive cr...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
Turkey’s Tüpraş Racks Up Profits, Maxes Output As Runs Of Iraqi Crude Double
...14 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 '000 b/d % Crude Throughputs 393 42...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Aramco Dusts Off Plans For $2bn Ras Tanura Clean Fuels Project
...at at least three rounds of bidding for the Ras Tanura upgrade have been conducted already without any EPC awards. The project is expected to cost $2bn. Aramco awarded front end and engineering design (FEED) for the Ras Tanura clean fuels upgrade to US firm Jacobs Engineering in 2011, under the Ge...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
Israel Refiners Ramp Up Throughputs On Back Of Cut-Price KRG Barrels
...12 2011 REFINERY OUTPUT (‘000 B/D) 294.89 282.21 +12.7 +4.5 302.77 +8.4 +18.3 29...
Volume: 58Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015 -
Rabigh Shutdown To Curb Saudi Refining Surge
...pected to take total Saudi capacity to 2.91mn b/d by the end of 2015 (MEES, 27 February). Petro Rabigh says the shutdown will allow the second periodic maintenance since 2011. Such closures are “carried out every four years as a regular practice in the refining and petrochemicals industry.” The co...
Volume: 58Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015 -
Qatar’s GTL Output To Fall As Pearl And Oryx Plants Undergo Maintenance
...of the first train in early 2011 and the first commercial cargo of gasoil in June 2011. Each shutdown will defer production of roughly 4.2mn barrels of GTL liquids and 3.6mn barrels of NGLs. Shell has not detailed the work being carried out during the shutdowns. However, any non-routine wo...
Volume: 58Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015 -
GCC Petchems: Innovation Needed
...rth $97.3bn, 2% of the global figure, but GCC producers spent a mere $380mn on R&D, “just 0.8% of global R&D spending,” the GPCA says. However this 2012 spend was 30% up on $266mn for 2011, while global petrochemicals R&D spending increased 10% year on year. GCC petrochemicals firms have st...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014 -
Algeria Preparing Tender For Biskra And Tiaret Refineries
...giers 1964 2.7 54 Arzew 1974 3.75 75 25,000 b/d expansion completed late 2011 Hassi Me...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
SABIC Pulls Out Of Caribbean Methanol Project
...s feedstock remains an objective of the government. The ministry noted that it was now “seeking to enter into a more favourable partnership” in pursuit of its development goals. Trinidad and Tobago produced 4.09mn cfd of natural gas in 2011. It is one of the world’s largest producers of me...
Volume: 56Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2013 -
UAE NGL Projects To Boost Exports, Borouge Capacity
...s field, and in doing so recover the same volume of gas – currently used for reinjection – for delivery to Habshan 5 (MEES 19, September 2011). Currently, most of the heavier ‘field condensate’ is collected at the wellhead – through active stripping at the gas gathering platform, or natural pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
No Fuel Supply Worries As Oman’s Sohar Complex Shuts
...ficiently and more cleanly as a result of this effort.” ORPIC was formed in June 2011 with the merger of the Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals Company, Aromatics Oman, and Oman Polypropylene (MEES, 20 June 2011). ORPIC meanwhile has said it expects to award a $1.5bn construction contract in the co...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013