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Oman: Liwa Bid Groups
...int ventures (MEES, 19 December 2014). The plant will be built in four parts. An 800,000 tons/year steam cracker will incorporate CB&I process technology. A polymers plant will include 500,000 t/y linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), 300,000 t/y high density polyethylene (HDPE) and 215,000 t/y po...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
Sadara Nears Completion, Recruiting Processors For PlasChem Park
...lowing the production of specialty chemicals not previously available within the region. Among these will be 600,000 t/y of isocyanates, which can be combined with polyols (Sadara will produce 390,000 t/y of polyether polyols) to produce polyurethanes (MEES, 21 March 2014). Polyurethanes are one of th...
Volume: 58Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2015 -
EGPC Outlay On Refinery Upgrades To Top $17Bn
...raight-run Cairo Oil Refining Company (CORC) refinery, will process 107,200 b/d of residue from CORC to give lighter products including 46,300 b/d of diesel, 12,800 b/d of jet fuel, 7,600 b/d of naphtha and 2,500 b/d of LPG (MEES, 25 April 2014). Deliveries of equipment are due to begin in August. Tw...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Saudi Capacity Tops 2.9mn B/D As Yasref Ships First Products
...erations began in June 2014 – will receive crude from the 900,000 b/d Manifa offshore oil field, which had been due to reach full capacity at end-2014 (MEES, 28 November 2014). SAUDI ARABIAN REFINERIES Refinery ‘000 B/D Start-Up...
Volume: 58Issue: 04Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015 -
Saudi, UAE Refinery Throughputs Down
...e Takreer Expansion plant, with a view to full start-up in early 2015. Meanwhile, analysis of the JODI numbers shows that Saudi refinery outputs exceeded crude inputs by an average 138,000 b/d over the 12 months to November 2014. While monthly differentials will rise and fall because of products st...
Volume: 58Issue: 04Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015 -
Saudi Petchems Income Curbed By Oil Price Crash, Uncertain 2015 Ahead
...SAUDI ARABIA Saudi Petchems Income Curbed By Oil Price Crash, Uncertain 2015 Ahead Saudi Arabia’s 14 traded petrochemicals companies saw their overall market capitalization increase slightly last year, but newly-released financial results show the impact of the fourth quarter 2014 sl...
Volume: 58Issue: 04Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015 -
Mideast Plastics Conversion To Rise 40% By 2020, But ‘Specialty’ Needed
...61mn t/y of polyethylene capacity and 960,000 t/y of polypropylene as they come onstream during 2014-16. Yet the bulk of these commodity products will come from the first project to go ahead – Borouge 3. Sadara and Petro Rabigh 2, on the other hand, will produce a combined 2.02mn t/y of specialty products th...
Volume: 58Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2015 -
UAE’s DFT Opens Niche Fuels Processing Plant Near Ajman Port
...is will process ‘tanker slops’ from visiting vessels, turning a waste liquid into saleable oil products (MEES, 4 July 2014). At the same time Dubai’s Petrixo is building a 23,000 b/d biofuel refinery in Fujairah for 4Q15 start-up. This will be the first commercial plant outside North America pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 03Published at Fri, 16 Jan 2015 -
Kuwait Petchems Expansion Moves Slowly Despite Equate PE Boost
...on which most regional capacity is based. Saudi Arabia is already developing mixed feed plants as a route into specialty chemicals (MEES, 17 October 2014). MEES estimates that Equate’s polyethylene capacity expansion will require an additional 15mn cfd of ethane feedstock, while building Ol...
Volume: 58Issue: 02Published at Fri, 09 Jan 2015 -
New Gulf Petchems Start-Ups In Shadow Of Aramco Mega-Projects
...oject) Location Start-Up Main Products (‘000 T/Y) Borouge (Borouge 3)* Ruwais, UAE 2014 1,080 PE, 960 PP, 350 LDPE Sipchem* Ju...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
Jordan Cuts Handouts
...ndling fees. The latest pricelist effective 1 December cuts the price of 90 Octane unleaded gasoline by 17.4% from March 2014 (see table). Jordan Product Prices (Fils*/Liter, Unless Otherwise Stated) Dec ‘14 vs...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
OPEC, IEA Envisage $175Bn-Plus Mideast Refining Outlay To 2040
...2040. Both envisage regional crude distillation capacity surging to 2040, driven by rising local demand and governments’ search for increased revenues from oil resources. OPEC’s recent 2014 World Oil Outlook (WOO) forecasts a 3.7mn b/d increase in Middle East refining capacity to 2040: 2....
Volume: 57Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2014 -
Mideast Refining Surge To Continue Through 2040
...om 8.5% to 12.2%, while OPEC sees a hike from 8.1% to 11.5% (see Table 1). The IEA’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2014 envisages Middle East refinery throughputs rising from 6.6mn b/d in 2013 to 8.5mn b/d in 2020 and 10.6mn b/d in 2040. OPEC’s World Oil Outlook (WOO) 2014 (MEES, 7 November), sees ru...
Volume: 57Issue: 46Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2014 -
Egypt Plans Suez Refinery Asphalt, Diesel Expansion
...phalt – this is included in ‘other products’, for which first half 2014 production averaged 22,000 b/d and demand averaged 23,000 b/d. The Suez unit will be one of a number of new diesel sources. A key project is the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC) hydrocracker being built beside the 160,000 b/d st...
Volume: 57Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014 -
Saudi Speciality Petchems Transformation Focuses On Aromatics
...omatics/Propylene: 2,200 Paraxylene Satorp, Jubail 700 2014...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Gulf Refinery Expansions Mean 1mn B/D Products Exports From 2015
...oject are due to take Gulf refining capacity from 6.88mn b/d at the end of 2012 to 8.76mn b/d in 2020, a hike of 1.88mn b/d. Taking typical regional run rates (once plants have fully ramped up) of 85% and MEES estimates of domestic demand (based on actual figures to July 2014, current trends and kn...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Key Project Shelved As Qatar Shifts Petchems Strategy
...10 Q-Chem II HDPE 350 2010 Linear a-Olefins 345 Total 2014 15...
Volume: 57Issue: 39Published at Fri, 26 Sep 2014 -
Algeria Fertilizers Capacity Rising After Sonatrach Signs New Gas Deals
...dernourished, but there are signs of green shoots. For a start, state petroleum regulator Alnaft is offering 31 blocks to encourage oil and gas exploration – although potential bidders are challenging the terms (MEES, 22 August). Sorfert Ramp-Up In its first half 2014 results Orascom says that “ramping up...
Volume: 57Issue: 38Published at Fri, 19 Sep 2014 -
KNPC Extends Al-Zour Bidding
...tairi says the tender deadlines have been extended until November 2014 and January 2015. “We are targeting April 2015 to sign the contracts for Al-Zour,” Mr Mutairi tells Reuters. This would represent little slippage, as the company earlier said it would award engineering, procurement and construction co...
Volume: 57Issue: 38Published at Fri, 19 Sep 2014 -
Egypt: Gas Shortage Fuels Record Diesel Demand
...0,000 b/d of products imports (assuming most is diesel in line with Egypt’s current import slate), the equivalent of around 90% of Egypt’s first half 2014 import requirements on a net basis (see table). Already products imports have soared. Overall net products imports hit a record 277,000 b/d in June. Fu...
Volume: 57Issue: 37Published at Fri, 12 Sep 2014