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Bahrain Opts For 360,000 B/D Expansion
...rks a scaling back – amid financing concerns – from earlier more ambitious plans for expansion to 450,000 b/d and beyond (MEES, 19 December 2011). The $5-6bn project will be completed in steps with the first phase to come online in 2017 and the final phase in 2020. Originally Bapco hoped to se...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Orpic Tenders Liwa FEED As Oman Joins Middle East Plastics Boom
...,000 t/y iso-butanol SABIC/Celanese Jubail, Saudi Arabia 2016 50,000 t/y polyacetal QP/Shell Ras Laffan, Qatar (Al-Karaana) 2017 1....
Volume: 56Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2013 -
Qatar Nears Full GTL Output, Eyes Competitors’ Projects
...,000 2014 $9.5bn Chevron (75%) NNPC (25%) Uzbekistan GTL Uzbekistan 33,000 2017-18 $4bn Sasol (44.5%), Malaysia’s Petronas (11...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
Kuwait Fast Tracks Refinery Projects
...madi – a fifth NGL fractionation train – is expected to tender for construction contracts in 3-6 months. “Muhammad al-Mutairi is really pushing the fifth train,” the contractor says. Capacity will be 105,000 b/d of LPG and condensate and 800mn cfd of ethane and natural gas. For 2017, when the fifth train is...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013 -
Orpic: Plastic Expansion
...,000 b/d of condensate) Khazzan-Makarem tight gas field project starts up. The project will set a new price range the government is prepared to pay gas producers to attract upstream investment. It is due to start up in the first half of 2017....
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013 -
Kuwait JV Awards Foster Wheeler Vietnam Refinery PMC
...nstruction contractor (EPC) consortium through to the completion of performance testing.” Foster Wheeler carried out front end engineering for the project under a contract awarded in July 2008. Total investment will be $9bn with commercial operations due to begin in 2017, Foster Wheeler says. The plant will ha...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
IEA Sees Mixed Fortunes For North African, Mideast Refiners
...skra and Tiaret. These are among four 100,000 b/d refineries planned for start-up in 2017 (MEES, 15 March). Algeria’s planning appears to be getting increasingly ambitious, with Ali Hached – advisor to energy minister Yousef Yousfi – telling reporters in early July that the country aims to build six re...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
QP And Qapco Award Al-Sejeel FEED to Bechtel
...th a target of raising total petrochemical output to 23mn t/y by 2020 from 16.8mn t/y at end-2012. Earlier QP and Shell awarded US firm Fluor a FEED contract for the Al-Karaana petrochemicals complex at Ras Laffan. This is due to start up in 2017 with capacity to produce 1.5mn t/y of monoethylene gl...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
QP, Qapco Sign Al-Sejeel Polymers Deals
...llows the award by QP and Shell to US firm Fluor of a FEED contract for the planned Al-Karaana petrochemicals complex at Ras Laffan. Al-Karaana is due to start up in 2017 and will have capacity to produce 1.5mn t/y of monoethylene glycol, 300,000 t/y of linear alpha olefins and 250,000 t/y of oxo-al...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
Mideast Refining Capacity Edges Up, Runs Fall
...st ambitious expansion plan – three 400,000 b/d capacity refineries, due onstream in 2013, 2014 and 2016. The UAE is building a 417,000 b/d plant which is due onstream in 2014, while Algeria’s Sonatrach has announced a plan to build four 100,000 b/d capacity refineries for 2017 start-up. Also Oman is lo...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
KPI Vietnam Refinery OK’d
...nture, with KPI holding 35.1%, PetroVietnam 25.1% and Mitsui 4.7%. Following the FID and cofinancing agreement, construction is expected to begin in July 2013. Construction is slated to be completed in 2016 and commercial operations are scheduled to begin in 2017. The refinery will be built in th...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
Iraqi Petchem Prospects Hinge On Refinery Integration
...-50bn over the period 2017-23 in building total petrochemicals capacity of 10mn tons/year. “Of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar and others are already producing petrochemicals,” he said. “Those in charge in Baghdad have to consider this and what is happening in refining and the potential for integration. Ne...
Volume: 56Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2013 -
Turkey Joins MENA Capacity Surge As Socar Awards STAR Refinery Contract
...nstruction work was 97% complete and that the 400,000 b/d plant would be fully operational toward the end of 2013. Although the International Energy Agency (IEA) recently said that the 400,000 b/d Yanbu’ Aramco Sinopec Refining Company (Yasref) is now scheduled for 2017-18 (MEES, 17 May), Saudi Aramco ma...
Volume: 56Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2013 -
IEA Sees Middle East Refiners Adding 2.5Mn B/D Of Capacity In 2013-18
...ant at Yanbu’, originally slated for 2014 completion, is now “scheduled for 2017-18.” Elsewhere, the region’s largest capacity addition will be in the UAE, where a new 420,000 b/d refinery at Ruwais is due online in 2015. “This high-conversion project,” says the report, “will process heavy re...
Volume: 56Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2013 -
Gulf Petrochemicals Firms Expanding Capacity Despite US Shale Threat
...hylene capacity rising by 3.7% a year in the medium term, to 183.4mn tons/year in 2017 from 147.6mn t/y in 2011 (MEES, 2 November 2012). Despite the shifting market economics, Gulf petrochemicals companies are pressing ahead with expansions. Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) Se...
Volume: 56Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2013 -
Total Signs $1.3bn Ras Laffan Condensate Splitter Deal; Seeks Saudi, Iraq Projects
...mand growth over 1997-2017 at 6% per annum, compared to 1.5% for Europe and America. And with Europe having lost 6% of its refinery capacity through closures, Mr Pouyanné wants 35% of Total’s downstream capital employed in the Mideast and Asia by 2017. The Gulf is high on Total’s radar. Both Mr...
Volume: 56Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2013 -
MENA Refiners Mull New Projects Amid Major Expansion Program
...e at various stages of development in Saudi Arabia, while expansions are under way in the UAE and Oman. Algeria has joined the capacity rush, starting work on the first of four 100,000 b/d refineries due on stream in 2017. Saudi Aramco is nearing completion of the Satorp refinery in Jubail an...
Volume: 56Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2013 -
Algeria Preparing Tender For Biskra And Tiaret Refineries
...ce-president Abdelkader Benchouia. Addressing reporters on the sidelines of an exhibition in Oran, he said the two “same specification” refinery projects – at Biskra and Tiaret – are part of a $14bn program to build four new refineries, all of which are scheduled to enter service in 2017. Refineries at...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Bahrain Refinery Study Set For June Completion
...stream by 2017 and the last one by 2020.” MEES understands that the cost of the expansion will be $5-9bn, depending on the finalized scope of the project. In January, Bapco appointed HSBC and BNP Paribas to advise the company on the refinery expansion’s financials. Bapco is not cu...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
QP And Shell Award MEG Plant FEED Contract To Fluor
...ggest they are looking to a 2017 start-up. Qatar’s Minister of Energy and Industry Muhammad al-Sada said: “The Al-Karaana petrochemicals complex has been envisioned to further boost Qatar’s rapidly growing stature in the global petrochemicals industry.” MEG Market Global demand for MEG was es...
Volume: 56Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2013