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Saudi Refineries Output 2013
...tal *2505 85.1 91.7 -6.5 from Sep 2014 Yasref, Yanbu Ar...
Volume: 57Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2014 -
Iran Refineries Produced 1.64Mn B/D Last Year; CDU Capacity 1.86Mn B/D
...rch 2014. This represents a capacity utilization rate of 88.1%. Diesel and gasoline together accounted for 60% of total output. However, Iranian data submitted to JODI indicates Iran’s refineries produced an average 1.81mn b/d for the roughly similar April 2013-March 2014 period, up slightly from 1....
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
Fertilizer Boost For Algeria’s Battered Petchems Industry
...13, a cumulative fall of 21% since 2006, according to official figures released by the IMF in its extensive report on the Algerian economy earlier in the year (see graph). LNG exports have fallen even further: from 14.3mn tons for 2010 to 10.9mn tons last year, according to the 2014 report of the In...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Iran Targets Petchems Hike
...more than 25%, he told the petroleum ministry’s Shana website, from 40mn tons produced in the year ending 20 March 2014. The company aims to get its petrochemicals expansion back on track after years of economic sanctions and the withdrawal of international firms from Iran’s petrochemicals se...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Saudi Gifts Egypt Oil
...the first year of the revolution. Egypt’s draft budget for 2014-15 (the year beginning 1 July 2014) projects a deficit of 13.9% of GDP, an official source has announced. This is higher than the current figure of 9.1% in the 2013-14 budget ending on 30 June. The new budget will also levy an ad...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Tupras Boosts Turkish Conversion Capacity
...sidue upgrader unit at the 220,000 b/d Izmit refinery will transform high-sulfur fuel oil into Euro V standard light products, while increasing production capacity for petroleum coke and sulfur. The project was over 90% complete at end-2013 and is scheduled for November 2014 start-up, Tupras says. Sp...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
KNPC Moves Al-Zour Forward; Saudi Plants Online By End-14
...e coker is operational. This is a similar process to the Satorp start-up, with both plants configured for Manifa crude (MEES, 18 October 2013). Takreer’s Ruwais Expansion, configured for Murban crude, was intended to start up in February 2014 (MEES, 9 November 2012). Now UAE Minister of Energy Su...
Volume: 57Issue: 18Published at Fri, 02 May 2014 -
GCC Polymers Increasing In Volume And Sophistication, Says GPCA
...gineering plastics is “growing exponentially from a small base.” The 2.48mn t/y of new polymers to be added during 2014-18 will include a range of synthetic rubbers, thermoplastic resins and polyurethanes increasingly in demand from the automotive, electrical and electronic and consumer goods in...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Saudi Petchems: Smaller Plants Advance
...th a view to 2014 start-up....
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Work To Begin On Egypt’s Tahrir Petchems Complex
...2014. Carbon Holdings aims to raise $3bn of the project cost through export credit agencies and is holding talks with Ex-Im Bank of the US, Korea’s Kexim and Italy’s SACE. Naphtha Vs Ethane Global Demand [Mn B/D] Tahrir Petrochemical Complex ‘00...
Volume: 57Issue: 14Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014 -
Gulf Petchem Megaprojects Eye Shift From Ethane Feedstock
...Main Products (‘000 T/Y) Sipchem Jubail, S Arabia 2014 200 EVA and LDPE PCC Jubail, S Arabia 2014 50 nylon 66...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
KRG Boosts Oil Sector Integration With Bazian Refinery Expansion
...r 80 100 2014 Bazian Qaiwan 34 84 2018 Tawke DN...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
Saudi Petchems Producers Creating Their Own Customer Base In Clusters
...Capacity SABIC 2014 140,000 t/y ABS SABIC/Mitsubishi 2014 250,000 t/y MMA, 40,000 t/y PMMA Sipchem 2014 63...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
Saudi Arabia On Track For 26% Refining Capacity Hike This Year
...eration. The new plants will add to 2.1mn b/d of capacity at seven fully operational refineries and 200,000 b/d at the first Satorp CDU, which was started up last year (MEES, 13 September 2013). This will take Saudi Arabian refining capacity to almost 3mn b/d by the end of 2014 (see table 1). Rising do...
Volume: 57Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2014 -
Gulf Refiners Plan 1Mn B/D Additions By End-2014
...th a production capacity of up to 400,000 b/d during the third quarter of this year,” Mr Naimi says. UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei, meanwhile, says expansion of the Ruwais refinery by state firm Takreer will be completed by the end of 2014. The plant will have capacity to process 41...
Volume: 57Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2014 -
Petchems Firms Foster ‘Made In Saudi Arabia’
...wever, extensions to the bidding deadline mean the 2014 official start-up target may be compromised. SABIC also plans to invite bids for an EPC contract to build a 200,000 t/y acrylonitrile plant at Jubail. SME Program While SABIC has opened R&D centers in China and India to support its push into la...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Saudi Petchems Firms Report Mixed 2013 Fortunes Amid Tough Market Conditions
...rnings in 2014, while SIIG will benefit from improved operating efficiencies at existing plants. Petrochem’s decreased losses resulted from improved operations at the Saudi Polymers plant, although it “has yet to reach the design capacity in all its operating units.” Output at full capacity would in...
Volume: 57Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2014 -
Refiners Plan ‘Too Much CDU Capacity, Not Enough Conversion
...be delayed until [the planned giant 615,000 b/d] Al-Zour is completed,” says Mr Fathi. Al-Zour contracts may be awarded in 2014, he adds. Iraq’s capacity utilization is “not more than 70%” with light product imports over 100,000 b/d, but the long-planned expansion has made little progress: “Ev...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
Iraq Defends Misan Refinery Deal
...tarem “has shown that it has well-known partner companies and financiers,” the ministry adds. Accordingly, “the memorandum of understanding was signed on 10 October 2013 and ends on 10 February 2014.” The ministry says it “will study and analyze all the presented” information and notes that “this me...
Volume: 57Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2014 -
Tacaamol Aromatics JV
...livered through a pipeline that is part of the phase one work. Chemaweyaat in 2010 said the Tacaamol plant would incorporate a 70,000 b/d reformer. The project was intended for 2014 start-up, but the need to complete the FEED work and then award engineering, procurement and construction contracts me...
Volume: 57Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2014