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Iran Eyes Imminent Petrochemicals Boost
...d is PGPIC’s only methanol project under construction, with locally manufactured “super heaters” installed in June. Hengam is set to produce 726,000 t/y of ammonia and 1.155mn t/y of urea and has been under construction since 2011 – 12 years and counting. The project suffered a setback when Sa...
Volume: 66Issue: 43Published at Fri, 27 Oct 2023 -
Qatar Breaks Ground On Historic LNG Expansion Project
...mn t/y ceremony. Preparing to host the tournament was arguably the government’s key economic focus between 2011 and last year, and that focus has now shifted to the North Field Development. The North Field’s gas and NGLs (including condensate) alone routinely account for around 60% of Qatar’s total ex...
Volume: 66Issue: 40Published at Fri, 06 Oct 2023 -
Mena Petchems Firms See PDH Process As Key To Exploiting Propane Resources
...ypt 2011 *480 EPPC n/a EGPC 0.8 400 PP Ruwais, UA...
Volume: 62Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 -
Egypt’s Refiners Struggling To Keep Pace With Products Demand
...balance, with imports worth $67bn and exports just $18.5bn in 2015, according to ministry of trade statistics. Tourist revenue and direct foreign investment, the main earners of foreign exchange for Egypt have gradually fallen since the 2011 revolution with a worsening of the security situation in the co...
Volume: 59Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2016 -
Oman Announces New Bid Round As Record Output Continues
...uts the north-western border with Oman, along with Oxy’s Block 9 and PTT’s relinquished Block 44. Again a tight gas play, the last well was drilled in 2011. The final onshore offering is Block 49, which is on the south-western border with Saudi Arabia. To the east of the block is DNO’s Block 36. DN...
Volume: 59Issue: 41Published at Fri, 14 Oct 2016 -
Cairo Struggles With Products Shortages
...reign exchange reserves fell to $16.3bn at the end of September, less than half of the $36bn they stood before January 2011 (see graph, p16). This lack of dollars will also make it harder for Egypt to repay international oil companies (IOCs). State oil firm EGPC has had to look for ways to obtain do...
Volume: 58Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2015 -
Despite Record Gasoline Imports, Egypt’s Retail Pumps Run Dry
...14 2014 2013 2012 2011 CRUDE OIL: Production* 692 +4 688 676 68...
Volume: 58Issue: 40Published at Fri, 02 Oct 2015 -
Bahrain Refinery Revamp To Boost Heavy Oil Upgrading
...mpletion in 2019 (MEES, 19 September). More Modest The current plan is more modest than an earlier incarnation, which envisaged Sitra capacity being expanded to 450,000 b/d. CLG completed a FEED study for this scenario in 2011. Around 45,000 b/d of the crude currently processed at Sitra comes fr...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Speciality Petchems Transformation Focuses On Aromatics
...e key components of Aramco’s refining expansion and push into petrochemicals under its Accelerated Transformation Program launched in 2011 to turn Aramco into “a fully integrated global energy enterprise.” Aramco CEO Khalid al-Falih says the program will “not only significantly expand our existing ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Iran Faces $40Bn Petchems Project Backlog, Uncertain Gas Supplies
...e crackers and polymers plants are around 60% built and intended to be brought onstream by the end of 2015. All the projects could be completed in four years’ time, she says, if the “needed timely investment” is made. NPC’s 2011 Annual Report – only recently published – says NPC’s total pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
QPI Steps Back From Tunisia Refinery Project
...newed this interest after the 2011 revolution that ousted former president Zein al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali. Recent political developments may have played their part in QPI's decision. The moderate Islamist Ennahda party has agreed to relinquish power to a caretaker government that is to prepare fo...
Volume: 56Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2013 -
Iraq Signs Misan Deal With Satarem As Refineries Program Gathers Pace
...r Misan refinery in 2009. These were completed in early 2011. In 2010, US firm KBR was awarded contracts by the oil ministry for licensing and basic engineering for a 47,500 b/d fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit and a 45,000 b/d solvent deasphalting unit to be built at the Misan refinery. The mi...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013 -
Algeria Launches Biskra Amid Problems For North African Refiners
...5 Completion of 35,000 b/d expansion in May 2013 took Skikda capacity to 335,000 b/d. Egypt 726 Egypt’s net product demand nearing refining capacity before 2011 regime change. Libya 38...
Volume: 56Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013 -
Jubail Specialty Chemicals Boost
...e MMA unit is set to be the largest ever and will incorporate MRC’s proprietary Alpha technology, which uses methanol, ethylene and carbon monoxide as feedstock. At the launch of the joint venture in 2011 to build the plants, a SABIC official described Alpha as a “breakthrough technology.” Me...
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013 -
Iraqi Oil Demand Bounces Back
...aqi 2010 oil demand at 32mn tons. Deciphering Iraqi supply and demand trends is a dark art, involving an appreciation of cross-border smuggling, misreporting and simple human frailty, but a rough calculation points to demand rising relatively modestly in 2011 to about 33mn tons. But this year, it has pi...
Volume: 55Issue: 44Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012 -
Middle East Refinery Capacity To Surge, Says IEA
...owing regional oil product demand,” Toril Bosoni, refining analyst for IEA’s monthly Oil Market Report, told MEES. The IEA sees Middle East oil demand growing by 1.7mn b/d from 2011 to 2017 or an average annual growth rate of 3.4% – the highest in the world. With forecast additions to Middle East re...
Volume: 55Issue: 44Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012