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Aramco Awards Final Big Jazan Contract; Yasref Ramp-Up Boosts Light Products
...torp refinery at Jubail in 2013, while Aramco and China’s Sinopec completed Yasref at Yanbu’ in 2014 and are currently ramping up crude throughput (MEES, 10 April). Diesel output set a new monthly record of 785,000 b/d in February, taking the average for diesel produced in January and February to 78...
Volume: 58Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2015 -
Egypt’s Midor Refinery Signs Up UOP For $1.4bn, 60,000 b/d Expansion
...d 60,000 b/d of crude distillation capacity, it is particularly aimed at expanding output of middle distillates, especially Euro 5 specification diesel and jet fuel, to meet domestic market needs. In 2014 Egypt had to import a record 221,000 b/d of products (see graph). Last year Midor says it im...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
Petro Rabigh Plans $1.9bn Rights Issue
...abia’s existing commodity polymers industry (MEES, 17 October 2014). New products for Saudi Arabia from Rabigh 2 will include ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) and thermoplastic olefin (TPO). The expansion will take Petro Rabigh’s output capacity to 5mn t/y of petrochemicals and 15mn t/y of re...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
Gulf Refining Activity Slowing After Completion Of Three Mega-Projects
...e Aramco/Total Satorp plant was completed in mid-2014 and the Aramco/Sinopec Yasref plant is building crude runs after starting up in fourth quarter 2014. The refineries take Saudi crude processing capacity to 2.91mn b/d and are enabling a hike in non-crude exports: gross product exports reached 1....
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Egypt Signs Contract With Axens For Assiut Gasoline Unit
...tane gasoline and 200 b/d of butane. Petroleum Minister Sharif Isma’il says the project is part of the ministry’s plan to upgrade existing plants to increase production capacity to meet local market needs. He says the CCR will help reduce gasoline imports. Egypt imported 69,000 b/d of gasoline in 2014...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Sipchem Finishes Gulf’s First EVA/LDPE Plant
...other Sipchem affiliate. The 75,000 t/y butanediol plant has been debottlenecked to provide feedstock for the PBT unit (MEES, 11 April 2014). Meanwhile, equal partners Sadara (Saudi Aramco/Dow Chemical), Saudi Kayan and Saudi Acrylic Acid Company (SAAC) aim to begin trial operations in the third qu...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Tupras Sees $2.7Bn Izmit Upgrader Boosting Refining Margins
...ports to meet commitments to its distribution and retail affiliates. Tupras is hoping to raise its total capacity utilization to 95% – up from 72% for 2014 – once the upgrader is running at full throughput, allowing it to raise its products output to 27.5mn tons for 2015 from 20.1mn tons (42...
Volume: 58Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2015 -
Israel Refiners Ramp Up Throughputs On Back Of Cut-Price KRG Barrels
...rael’s refineries – the 196,000 b/d capacity Bazan plant in Haifa and the 100,000 b/d Paz plant in Ashdod achieved record runs in 2014. Total products output was 295,000 b/d, up by 4.5% from 282,000 b/d in 2013. Bazan output was 192,000 b/d and Paz 103,000 b/d on the back of fourth quarter output that wa...
Volume: 58Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015 -
Oman Warns Of ‘Unsustainable’ Products Demand Growth
...ar between 2008 and 2014. Domestic demand stood at 160,000 b/d in 2014, up from 100,000 b/d six years earlier. CAPACITY TO MORE THAN DOUBLE Domestic demand for petroleum products is currently met by Oman’s two refineries at Mina al-Fahal (106,000 b/d) and Sohar (116,000 b/d) – both owned and op...
Volume: 58Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015 -
Oman Awards Salalah-2 BOO Contract To Mitsui/ACWA
...ak demand expected to rise from 470MW in 2014 to 800MW in 2020. Completion of Salalah-2 will take the grid’s generating capacity to 1.02GW (MEES, 11 April 2014). OPWP expects Oman’s total peak electricity demand to rise from 5.88GW in 2014 to 10.24GW in 2020 and is building new generating ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015 -
Saudi Aramco Taps Debt Market To Fund Rabigh 2
...its supply systems (MEES, 6 June 2014). RABIGH CAPACITY The existing Petro Rabigh plant is based around the cracker, which processes 95mn cfd of ethane, and a 400,000 b/d refinery. Output capacity is 18.4mn t/y of petroleum products and 2.4mn t/y of ethylene and propylene derivatives. “Up...
Volume: 58Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2015 -
Kuwait Starts Clean Fuel Construction
...ntracts worth a combined KD3.34bn ($12bn) for the CFP. Japan’s JGC is upgrading Mina al-Ahmadi, while Britain’s Petrofac and US firm Fluor have been awarded separate EPC contracts for upgrading Mina Abdullah (MEES, 14 February 2014). Amec Foster Wheeler is project management consultant for the CFP un...
Volume: 58Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015 -
UAE: Ruwais Expansion Ramps Up Output
...oducts demand has risen sharply in recent years, to around 400,000 b/d for 2014, while exports have fallen away to dip below 200,000 b/d. Takreer is also building a carbon black and delayed coker (CBDC) alongside the Ruwais Expansion plant, for start-up at the end of 2015. The plant will take heavy oi...
Volume: 58Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015 -
Rabigh Shutdown To Curb Saudi Refining Surge
...pply from Rabigh 2 will feed a number of new derivatives units providing a total 2mn t/y of high value chemicals and aromatics (MEES, 14 March 2014). “Each plant will be brought onstream as it becomes available for operation, with first product expected in the first half of 2016,” says Petro Rabigh....
Volume: 58Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015 -
Qatar’s GTL Output To Fall As Pearl And Oryx Plants Undergo Maintenance
...ys that Oryx operated at an average utilization rate of 97% for 2014, implying a reduction of around 1.42mn barrels produced during 2015 compared with 2014. QATAR GTL PROJECTS, RAS LAFFAN Project Gas F’stock Output Ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015 -
Saudi Arabia Aims For Key Role In Global Products Supply With $20Bn Jazan Plans
...ans for the region’s development, that the idea is to create value from the country’s oil and gas reserves, to serve as the engine for growth in the industrial sector rather than rely solely on crude oil exports. Latest official data submitted to the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) for 2014...
Volume: 55Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Saudi Refiners End Record-Breaking 2014 On A Crude Processing High
...SAUDI ARABIA Saudi Refiners End Record-Breaking 2014 On A Crude Processing High Saudi refineries processed a record 2.22mn b/d of crude oil in December, buoyed by the ramp-up of production at the 400,000 b/d Satorp refinery in Jubail (see p12). Further records will follow this year wi...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Saudi Runs, Product Exports Hit Record As Downstream Push Continues
...e Yasref start-up takes overall Saudi CDU capacity to a record 2.9mn b/d. But with December’s throughputs only 76% of this, more records can be expected in the coming months. > Saudi Arabian crude output edged up to 9.71mn b/d in 2014, the second highest (after 2012) since production briefly to...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Saudi Arabia 2014 Official Crude & Oil Products Output, Trade & Balance (‘000 B/D)
...Saudi Arabia 2014 Official Crude & Oil Products Output, Trade & Balance (‘000 B/D) 2014 14vs13 2013 2012 2011 2010 De...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
Mideast To Add 1.7Mn B/D CDU Capacity By 2020; Highest Growth Worldwide-IEA
...n b/d in 2014. “Although capacity expansions look in line with oil demand growth,” the forecast notes, “in fact as much as one third of incremental demand will be met by liquids supplies bypassing the refining system.” While non-OECD Asia is leading the refining growth in terms of added capacity, th...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015