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Libya’s R Lanuf Back Online
...rolysis gasoline (MEES, 14 January 2008). Output capacity also includes 172,260 t/y of gas used to fuel the plant and 12,700 t/y of hydrogen which is used both for hydrogenation at the ethylene plant and at the polyethylene plant whose design capacity was 160,000 t/y before Libya’s 2011 revolution. “Wi...
Volume: 66Issue: 20Published at Fri, 19 May 2023 -
Homs Refinery Fire Sheds Light On Syria’s Murky Fuel Markets
...om government-controlled territories at 20,000 b/d, whilst plans to boost production to 100,000 b/d at fields Damascus has re-captured have gone nowhere (MEES, 17 January 2020). Prior to the outbreak of civil war in 2011, national oil output, all government controlled, was 390,000 b/d (MEES, 22 Ja...
Volume: 64Issue: 19Published at Fri, 14 May 2021 -
Yemen Takes Delivery Of Saudi Products Shipments
...started in 2019 and is currently running at around 10,000 b/d (MEES, 15 January). A planned second phase 400MW expansion was awarded to India’s BHL for $436mn in 2011 with work beginning in 2014 (MEES, 9 August 2013). The project was financed by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the Sa...
Volume: 64Issue: 19Published at Fri, 14 May 2021 -
Oman’s OQ Raises $750mn Bond As It Looks To Bring Delayed Downstream Projects Online
...nterpiece of a new industrial city – the Special Economic Zone (SEZAD) of Duqm, which was established in 2011 to “diversify the national economy.” To provide power and water to SEZAD, Oman is building a 326MW combined cycle power plant integrated with a 36,000m³/day reverse osmosis desalination plant close to...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Shell’s Oman GTL Proposal: What’s Changed This Time Around?
...G) are aimed at developing the Gulf’s third gas-to-liquids (GTL) project, a surprising prospect given that the cost of Shell’s Pearl GTL plant in Qatar trebled from $6bn to $18.5bn between 2006 go-ahead and 2011 completion. Shell and Total are holding talks with MOG for a proposed $19bn in...
Volume: 62Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2019 -
Sabic Boosts Transparency Ahead Of Aramco Takeover
...17 slump (see chart). Historical Sabic data does not break out fertilizers and metals before 2015. While total Sabic output reached a record 75.3mn tons in 2018, annual total production had hovered around the 70mn tons level during 2011-17 after regular annual growth previously. Last year Sa...
Volume: 62Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2019 -
Aramco Boosts Downstream, International Experience
...itish MD of Shell 1991-98, Chair 1998-2001 Andrew Gould British Chairman Schlumberger 2003-11, BG 2011-12 Amin Nasser Sa...
Volume: 61Issue: 18Published at Fri, 04 May 2018 -
Pearl GTL: Shell Bullish But Gasifier Worries Linger
...laysia. Pearl, a test case of whether the ‘Bintulu’ technology is fully scalable, is a two-train plant. The first train was started up in early 2011 and the plant reached full commercial operation by the end of 2012. Pearl is Qatar’s second GTL plant. South Africa’s Sasol started up the $950mn, 32...
Volume: 60Issue: 19Published at Fri, 12 May 2017 -
Fertilizer Boost For Algeria’s Battered Petchems Industry
...hylene throughput had been on a downward trajectory since 2006 and most units were shut down in 2011 (see chart). The plant had the capacity to produce 120,000 t/y of ethylene, 48,000 t/y of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), 130,000 t/y of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and 35,000 t/y of PVC. El...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Iraq Petchems Exports Possible After 2020
...ntracts for the Siba and Mansuriya non-associated gas fields in the Western Desert, has spoken of rising costs of drilling at Mansuriya because of the heightened security risks. Of the four gas fields awarded in the lacklustre 2011 auction, Siba is expected to start production late this year or early ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Saudi Gifts Egypt Oil
...iro. Cutting energy subsidies has been an official government objective since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution in January 2011. Failure to introduce cuts in these subsidies and lower the budget deficit proved to be the stumbling block in the negotiations with the IMF over a $4.8bn loan to Egypt in...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Tupras Boosts Turkish Conversion Capacity
...mbined nameplate capacity of 562,000 b/d. Total output for 2013 dipped slightly to 442,000 b/d, but distillates output increased at the expense of fuel oil – to 68.5% of total output in 2013, from 65.3% in 2012 and 64% in 2011 (see table). Diesel output last year hit a record 115,300 b/d, whilst jet fu...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
Petro Rabigh, Chemanol Restart Offline Units
...rivatives – for an undisclosed period in 2015 for testing and inspection. This will be the plant’s second such shutdown since 2011, although the company says a five-year interval is typical for the industry. Petro Rabigh was hit last year by two utilities outages that necessitated repair and maintenance work on...
Volume: 57Issue: 18Published at Fri, 02 May 2014 -
Libya Eyes $80bn Downstream Drive
...chnologies.” Libya’s only current foreign downstream joint venture, the 50% stake of Dubai’s Al-Ghurair group in Ras Lanuf, has not been a happy one. Under the terms of the 2009 investment, Al-Ghurair was to invest $2bn in modernizing and expanding the plant. But a combination of factors, most notably the 2011 ci...
Volume: 56Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2013 -
Qatar Awards Condensate Splitter Project To Chiyoda/CTCI
...chnip, under a contract awarded by Qatargas in August 2011. Earlier, Technip carried out the FEED for LR1. Looking ahead, QP is expected to add an aromatics plant to the condensate splitters complex. This will provide benzene, toluene, and xylene feedstock for the domestic petrochemicals sector. ...
Volume: 56Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2013 -
Gulf Petrochemicals Firms Expanding Capacity Despite US Shale Threat
...hylene capacity rising by 3.7% a year in the medium term, to 183.4mn tons/year in 2017 from 147.6mn t/y in 2011 (MEES, 2 November 2012). Despite the shifting market economics, Gulf petrochemicals companies are pressing ahead with expansions. Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) Se...
Volume: 56Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2013 -
GCC Polymers Capacity Expansion ‘Tremendous’
...astics Industry – Facts and Figures 2012, says this represents a 13% capacity increase over 2011. “Throughout the past five years,” says the report, “the GCC region went through tremendous polymers capacity expansion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16%.” The largest growth in percentage te...
Volume: 56Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2013 -
Sabic To Cut EU Interests
...BIC first quarter net profits fell 10% year-on-year, as planned maintenance hit production and sales volumes. Net income for 1Q13 was SR6.56bn ($1.75bn), compared with SR7.27bn ($1.94bn) for 1Q12. Full year 2012 profits fell 15% to SR24.7bn ($6.59bn) from SR29.24bn ($7.80bn) in 2011 (MEES, 15 February). ...
Volume: 56Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2013