Aramco Lines Up Samsung For Riyadh Clean Fuels Projects

...nura Clean fuels project due for completion in 2017   Source: MEES.   Saudi Aramco and Chinese state firm Sinopec in January 2012 agreed to build a 400,000 b/d export refinery at Yanbu’ under their Yanbu’ Aramco Sinopec Refinery Company (Yasref) joint venture. The project ha...

Jacobs Snags Luberef Contract, Maintenance Curbs Refinery Runs

...ptember, which will be the first of four new refineries due on-stream by 2017 with a combined throughput capacity of 400,000 b/d (MEES, 21 September 2012).   In Libya operator Lerco has declared force majeure at the 220,000 b/d capacity Ras Lanuf refinery until 7 March, according to Reuters. An 18 Fe...

Gulf Refiners Progressing Upgrading And Expansion Projects

...an Planning to raise capacity by 82,000 b/d to 197,000 b/d by mid-2016 DRPIC (OOC/IPIC) Duqm, Oman New 230,000 b/d plant due on-stream 2017 KNPC Al-Zour, Kuwait New 61...

Gulf Refiners Set For Major Crude Distillation Capacity Boost

...sociated petrochemicals project is at an early stage, although a completion target of fourth quarter 2017 has been set for the refinery. The project is a joint venture of Oman Oil Company (OOC) and Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC). It will be designed to process heavy crude, wi...

IEA Sees Ethylene Market Driven By Ethane Cracker Surge

...st and the US, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In the 12 October Medium-Term Oil Market Report the agency predicted that global ethylene capacity will rise to 183.4mn tons/year in 2017 from 147.6mn t/y in 2011, equivalent to yearly growth of 3.7%.   In 2012, oil eq...

Middle East Refinery Capacity To Surge, Says IEA

...owing regional oil product demand,” Toril Bosoni, refining analyst for IEA’s monthly Oil Market Report, told MEES. The IEA sees Middle East oil demand growing by 1.7mn b/d from 2011 to 2017 or an average annual growth rate of 3.4% – the highest in the world. With forecast additions to Middle East re...

Duqm Complex Set For 2017 Completion

Algeria Advances Refining Expansion With Start Of Biskra Construction

...0,000 b/d set to come onstream by 2017.   The Biskra plant will produce 500,000 t/y (11,600 b/d) of gasoline, 220,000 t/y (7,000 b/d) of LPG and 169,000 t/y (3,600 b/d) of Kerosene, according to energy minister Youcef Yousfi, speaking at the launch. Three further plants of “similar” configuration ar...

Oman Pushes Refinery Expansion, Considers Impact On Crude Exports

...finery – is scheduled for start up in 2017, followed by Phase 2 – a petrochemicals plant, which is still being studied. It could produce ethylene depending on gas supply. Oman faces a gas shortage, but BP’s 1bn cfd Khazzan-Makarem tight gas project could be on stream by then (MEES, 20 July). Or Oman could op...