1. WWF Report Calls For Low-Carbon Re-Industrialization By 2014

    ...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LII No 43 26-Oct-2009 WWF Report Calls For Low-Carbon Re-Industrialization By 2014 The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has called for a global shift to a low-carbon economy by 2014, otherwise the world risks climate change at a runaway pace. In a re...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 43
    Published at Mon, 26 Oct 2009
  2. Sonatrach Shortlists Firms For Tiaret And Algiers Refinery Projects

    ...ing on-stream in 2011, but which now looks unlikely to be completed before 2014 at the earliest. Sonatrach’s head of downstream 'Abd al-Hafid Feghouli told MEES in November last year that the company expected to see the project’s total costs reduced from $6bn to $5bn, due to the fall in co...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 43
    Published at Mon, 26 Oct 2009
  3. GCC Refining Capacity Will Continue To Increase In The Medium Term, Says Moody’s

    ...rtially mitigated by the fact that many of these projects are likely to become operational after 2014, which is when, according to IEA forecasts, oil demand will have returned to 2008 levels. GCC Expected Additional Refining Capacity By 2015 Source: Moody’s estimates, BP, OPEC. Stable Outlook Fo...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 43
    Published at Mon, 26 Oct 2009
  4. IHS CERA Says OECD Oil Demand Has Peaked

    ...w we are seeing the tempering of the last significant driver of oil demand in developed countries – petroleum for transportation.” Emerging markets will drive future world oil demand, according to IHS CERA. It forecasts that oil demand will increase from 83.8mn b/d in 2009 to 89.1mn b/d in 2014...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 42
    Published at Mon, 19 Oct 2009
  5. Laffan Condensate Refinery Starts Operations

    ...e plant foundation stone was laid in April 2006 (MEES, 24 April 2006). The refinery, which cost around $800mn to construct, was originally scheduled for start-up in the fourth quarter of 2008, but before it was even finished Qatar has said it planned to double its capacity by 2014 (MEES, 10 Se...

    Volume: 52
    Issue: 40
    Published at Mon, 05 Oct 2009