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Tupras Boosts Turkish Conversion Capacity
...bsidiary of Azerbaijan’s state oil company and by Turkey’s Calik Enerji. While Calik’s planning for a 300,000 b/d refinery at Ceyhan is at an early stage, Socar is nearing completion of financing for the 200,000 b/d Socar Turkey Aegean Refinery (STAR) at Aliaga, which is expected to begin operating in 2017 an...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
KNPC Moves Al-Zour Forward; Saudi Plants Online By End-14
...abia 400 Under construction, expected onstream 2017. Qaiwan (Bazian Expansion) Bazian, KRG Iraq 50 Expansion to 84,000 b/d by 2018. EPC bids invited OOC/IPIC (DR...
Volume: 57Issue: 18Published at Fri, 02 May 2014 -
Egypt To Slash Diesel Imports As ERC Work Starts
...d a 32,000 b/d distillate hydrotreater. Initial work will include piling, site preparation and soil remediation. ERC chief executive Thomas Thomason told reporters recently that the plant is expected to start up in early 2017. He notes that Egypt already produces enough fuel oil to meet domestic re...
Volume: 57Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2014 -
Orpic Awards Liwa Plastics Project, Targets 2Q18 Start-Up
...gineering, procurement and construction (EPC) tender in December for April 2015 award. Commissioning is slated to begin in fourth quarter 2017, with a view to commercial operation in second quarter 2018. The company expects LPP to double Orpic’s profitability “through extracting significantly more va...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014 -
Turkish Refinery Looks To New Funding As World Bank Pulls Out
...a complex operated by Turkish petrochemical firm Petkim, for 2017 start-up. The plant will have capacity to process 10mn tons/year (200,000 b/d) of crude. STAR shareholders are Socar Turkey, Turkish conglomerate Turcas and the Azerbaijan government. Turcas announced on 25 March that it plans to sell it...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014 -
Gulf Petchem Megaprojects Eye Shift From Ethane Feedstock
...A, polyols from 30mn cfd ethane, 3mn t/y naphtha SABIC/Celanese Jubail, S Arabia 2016 50 polyacetal QP/Shell (Al-Karaana) Ras Laffan, Qatar 2017...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
KRG Boosts Oil Sector Integration With Bazian Refinery Expansion
...mplete the Bazian CDU and utilities by the fourth quarter of 2016 and the upgrading units by the fourth quarter of 2017, with a view to commercial operations by the start of 2018. To coincide with the refinery expansion, Qaiwan also plans to build a 120km, 18-inch pipeline with capacity to carry 12...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
Saudi Arabia On Track For 26% Refining Capacity Hike This Year
...zan n/a 400 2017 End-2017 Total 3,300 *All JVS Are With Aramco. ^First 200,000 B/D Cdu Started Sep 2013, Second Due To Start Up Mid-2014. Source: Saudi Aramco, ME...
Volume: 57Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2014 -
Algeria Plans 3Mn T/Y Skikda Petchems Plant
...vive Algeria’s petchems sector” – from the nearby refinery (MEES, 6 December 2013). Besides replacing Skikda’s petrochemicals plant, Mr Yousfi is also considering building a regional petrochemicals hub at Biskra, to be centered around a 100,000 b/d refinery, which is scheduled for 2017 start-up. Th...
Volume: 57Issue: 07Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2014 -
Gulf Refiners Plan 1Mn B/D Additions By End-2014
...C awarded. Saudi Aramco Jazan, S Arabia 400,000 b/d. Under construction, due onstream 2017. OOC/IPIC (DRPIC) Duqm, Oman 230,000 b/d, due onstream 2018. FEED bids being st...
Volume: 57Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2014 -
Socar Turkey Picks FW For Aliaga PMC
...rm AMEC has already completed front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the plant. Foster Wheeler envisages 2017 start-up for the 200,000 b/d, $4.35bn plant, which will be able to process a range of crudes including Russian Urals, Azeri Light and Iraqi Kirkuk. Socar last year awarded the pl...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
Qatar Awards Al-Sejeel FEED, Part Of 7mn T/Y Petchems Expansion
...ilt at Ras Laffan and due for 2017 start-up. The plant will have capacity to produce 1.5mn t/y of monoethylene glycol (MEG), 300,000 t/y of linear alpha olefins and 250,000 t/y of oxo-alcohols. QP and Shell awarded the Al-Karaana FEED project to US firm Fluor. It will utilize Shell’s proprietary MEG pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 20 Dec 2013 -
Kuwait Plans Big Downstream Strides, But Takes Small Steps
...velopment of a 200,000 b/d joint venture refinery in Vietnam, which is due onstream in 2017 (MEES, 2 August), and is assessing a number of similar prospects across Southeast Asia. Kuwaiti officials have held talks with China about a planned joint refinery, but negotiations have reached a standstill. Ho...
Volume: 56Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2013 -
Sonatrach To Replace Skikda Plastics Complex
...trochemicals project would face competition for state funding from other downstream plans. Sonatrach recently started building a new refinery at Biskra, the first of four 100,000 b/d plants due onstream in 2017. The company has proposed building a petrochemicals plant alongside the Biskra refinery, which Mr Yo...
Volume: 56Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2013 -
Oman Takes Its Place In Gulf Refining Expansion
...gineering and design (FEED) for a $6bn, 230,000 b/d refinery at Duqm. DRPIC has received both technical and commercial bids for the FEED, expected to take 14 months. Delays in awarding the design work are expected to push the refinery’s target start-up date back from 2017 to 2018. Once completed, DRPIC ai...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Gulf Petchem Firms Eye Additions To Busy Projects Schedule
...16 EPR, TPO, MMA, PMMA, LDPE/EVA, polyols, SAP, nylon 6 SABIC/Celanese Jubail, S Arabia 2016 50,000 t/y polyacetal QP/Shell Ras Laffan, Qatar 2017...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013 -
Algeria Launches Biskra Amid Problems For North African Refiners
...9bn). Algeria plans to tender for identical refineries at Biskra and Tiaret, and has set a 2017 start-up target for these and similar refineries at Ghardia and Messaoud. Minister of Energy and Mines Yousef Yousfi has also said that Biskra could form the core of a regional petrochemical hub (MEES, 15 Ma...
Volume: 56Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013 -
Dubai Refinery Doubts Amid Gulf Capacity Surge
...16 start-up Saudi Aramco Jazan, S Arabia New 400,000 b/d plant due onstream 2017 OOC/IPIC (DRPIC) Duqm, Oman New 230,000 b/d plant due onstream 2017 Sa...
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013 -
Gulf Refiners Ramp Up Capacity
...an 230 2017 KNPC Al-Zour, Kuwait 615 2018-21 Source: MEES. Schedule Uncertainty Kuwait’s 446,000 b/d Mina Al-Ahmadi and 270,000 b/d Mina Abdullah refineries also un...
Volume: 56Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2013 -
Abu Dhabi Puts Tacaamol Back On Track With Aromatics FEED
...12, with the aim of plant start-up in late 2017. The award of the first FEED only now suggests that start-up of the aromatics plant cannot be expected before 2018. Besides the reformer and aromatics units, Tacaamol Phase 1 will include a pipeline from the Ruwais refinery, an export tank farm, a jetty an...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013