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MENA Nuclear Progress Gathering Pace
...ergy Research Institute (Kaeri) for a three-year study into the feasibility of deploying Korean-designed modular 330MW reactors within the kingdom. Kaeri is building a demonstration plant for start-up in 2017. Jordan and Russia have signed an intergovernmental agreement for the first of two 1GW re...
Volume: 58Issue: 33Published at Fri, 14 Aug 2015 -
Egypt Signs Deals For CDU, Diesel Units In Push To Meet Rising Demand
...siut 25 Vapor Recovery Unit (LPG) 3,900 2016 Suez 36.5 Vapor Recovery Unit (LPG) 1,500 2017 Su...
Volume: 58Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2015 -
Egypt Petchems Plans Continue To Expand As Tahrir Gets Styrene Plant
...exandria } 1,020 460,000 t/y 45mn cfd ethane Ethydco Polyethylene (2015) Alexandria 400,000 t/y 460,000 t/y ethylene E-Styrenics Styrene (2017...
Volume: 58Issue: 29Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2015 -
Algeria Pushes New Refineries Beyond 2020, Fuel Deficit To Worsen
...spectively (see table). Biskra and Tiaret were part of an earlier four-refinery plan, with both initially due for 2017 start-up, to be followed by similarly sized projects at Ghardaia and Hassi Messaoud. Sonatrach started civil works at Biskra in 2012 and officially launched the project in 2013, saying it wo...
Volume: 58Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2015 -
Egyptian Refiners Award Contracts For New Gasoline Units, Plan Coker Rehab
...anned: Midor Expansion Alexandria 60 2017 Alexandria Exp Alexandria 100 na Sukhna Ain Su...
Volume: 58Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2015 -
Iran To Start Building Siraf Condensate Splitters, Targets Asia Petchems
...0 8 x 60 kb/d splitters. Target first unit online 2018. Persian Gulf Star Bandar Abbas 360 1.5 3 x 120 kb/d splitters. First unit expected online 2017. Pa...
Volume: 58Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2015 -
Aramco Boosting Refining Capacity, Plans ‘Value-Maximizing’ Integration
...a short period. In 2014 Aramco also started building a 400,000 b/d refinery at Jazan. Commissioning is due to start in 2017, but this may slip if local security worsens. Satorp is “one of the largest, most complex refineries in the world,” capable of fully converting 400,000 b/d of Arabian Heavy cr...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Oman Eyes Liwa Close, Prepares Duqm
...rst phase due to start up in 2017. The purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant will utilize paraxylene feedstock and will itself provide PTA feed for two linked 250,000 t/y polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plants. Ompet – a joint venture between state firm Oman Oil Company (OOC – 50%), Oman’s Ta...
Volume: 58Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2015 -
Jihadists Take Iraq’s Baiji Refinery; Shell Delays Majnoon
...st, if not all, of the sprawling facility in central Iraq, if a videotape of the battle released by the Jihadist group is to be believed. Shell, meanwhile, says it has pushed back full development plans for the Majnoon oil field to 2017 or beyond, suggesting that further growth in Iraqi production wi...
Volume: 58Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2015 -
Aramco Awards Final Big Jazan Contract; Yasref Ramp-Up Boosts Light Products
...mpletion in 2017. In the 15 April issue of ‘Arabian Sun,’ Aramco’s in-house magazine, Aramco says it has awarded detailed design for the refinery, while “the procurement of materials is ongoing, and lay-down yards are already filling up with pipes and steel that is ready for assembly.” Jazan re...
Volume: 58Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2015 -
Egypt’s Midor Refinery Signs Up UOP For $1.4bn, 60,000 b/d Expansion
...7,000 t/y (8,200 b/d). Midor says the expansion and revamp are to be completed by the end of 2017 and will increase white products output to 87% of the plant’s total production. At the signing ceremony, Midor chief executive Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Aziz said the revamped plant would also increase sulfur re...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
Gulf Refining Activity Slowing After Completion Of Three Mega-Projects
...mpleted it has yet to invite EPC bids. Iran and Qatar are both developing condensate splitter plants. Iran said it would bring the first of three 120,000 b/d splitters comprising the Persian Gulf Star plant at Bandar Abbas onstream in 2015: the IEA says 2017 is more likely. Qatargas is pressing on wi...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Egypt Signs Contract With Axens For Assiut Gasoline Unit
...5 Planned: Midor Expansion Alexandria 60 2017 Alexandria Exp. Alexandria 10...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Tupras Sees $2.7Bn Izmit Upgrader Boosting Refining Margins
...2 Planned Socar Aliaga [STAR] 200 2017 Calik Ceyhan [Adana] 30...
Volume: 58Issue: 14Published at Fri, 03 Apr 2015 -
Oman Awards Salalah-2 BOO Contract To Mitsui/ACWA
...pacity throughout the country. In the larger Main Interconnected System (MIS), OPWP is tendering for 2.6GW of capacity “across two sites” to start up in 2017-18 (MEES, 29 August 2014). In the isolated northern Musandam exclave, where Oman’s Rural Areas Electricity Company (Raeco) operates 290MW of di...
Volume: 58Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015 -
Mideast To Add 1.7Mn B/D CDU Capacity By 2020; Highest Growth Worldwide-IEA
...ndar Abbas is reportedly nearing completion and the first phase is expected to be commissioned in 2017, significantly increasing the country’s gasoline and diesel output. Once the three phases of the project are completed, Iran could become a net gasoline exporter,” the IEA says. Iran imported a record 17...
Volume: 58Issue: 07Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015 -
EGPC Outlay On Refinery Upgrades To Top $17Bn
...pansion Alexandria 60 2017 Alexandria Exp. Alexandria 100 na Sukhna Ain Sukhna 240 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Saudi Capacity Tops 2.9mn B/D As Yasref Ships First Products
....5 Sinopec Total Capacity 2,905 Jazan 400 2017 100 En...
Volume: 58Issue: 04Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2015 -
Kuwait Petchems Expansion Moves Slowly Despite Equate PE Boost
...efins 3 feedstock options include ethane, along with some refinery off-gases and propane, in combination with naphtha and condensate. PIC sees the main target market for Olefins 3 products as Asia, with further sales anticipated in the Middle East and Europe. PIC had proposed Olefins 3 start-up in 2017...
Volume: 58Issue: 02Published at Fri, 09 Jan 2015 -
New Gulf Petchems Start-Ups In Shadow Of Aramco Mega-Projects
...tsubishi Jubail, S Arabia 2017 250 MMA, 40 PMMA QP/Shell (Al-Karaana) Ras Laffan, Qatar 2017 1,500 MEG, 300 linear a-olefins SABIC Ju...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015