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Qatar Starts Work On Second Ras Laffan Condensate Refinery
...0 2011 Total current products output capacity 457 End-2016 Capacity 603 At Ras Laffan Except *Mesaieed. ^2001 For Cond Splitter. Ras Laffan 2 Products Ou...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
KBR Wins Jebel Ali Splitters Upgrade FEED
...ntract, capacities of the new units or the project schedule. It recently said its refinery throughput was 28% higher in 2013 than in 2011, while revenues increased by 50% and profits by 39%. Yet losses on fuel sales within Dubai, because of subsidies, are forcing the company to seek better returns el...
Volume: 57Issue: 14Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014 -
GCC Petchems: Innovation Needed
...rth $97.3bn, 2% of the global figure, but GCC producers spent a mere $380mn on R&D, “just 0.8% of global R&D spending,” the GPCA says. However this 2012 spend was 30% up on $266mn for 2011, while global petrochemicals R&D spending increased 10% year on year. GCC petrochemicals firms have st...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014 -
Kuwait Awards Long-Awaited $12Bn Clean Fuels Project
...mmittee has said it will review the recent award of a 1.5GW/486,000 cmd power and desalination project at Al-Zour as a prelude to calling in the public prosecutor (MEES, 7 February). KNPC Refining And Main Markets: Financial Years 2011-13 Refinery Throughput (‘00...
Volume: 57Issue: 07Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2014 -
Iran, Indonesia Team Up For $3Bn Refinery Project
...0,000 b/d of this refining capacity. But these seven facilities only meet around three quarters of Indonesia’s domestic demand, forcing it to import close to 300,000 b/d of petroleum products in 2013. In 2011, Pertamina was able to meet only 54% of the domestic demand for gasoline, and 86% of diesel de...
Volume: 57Issue: 07Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2014 -
GPCA Urges Petchems Firms To Save Water
...ange their procedures overnight.” Some producers are already improving their water usage, says GPCA. Abu Dhabi’s Borouge requires more than 1 bcm/year of water to make plastics, but during 2011-12 it saved 24mn cu ms of fresh water by using cold sea water in its manufacturing processes. Meanwhile, GP...
Volume: 56Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 20 Dec 2013 -
Egypt: Styrene Plant Go-Ahead
...ant will feed an existing on-site polystyrene plant which currently imports feedstock. Construction is expected to take 30 months. E-Styrenics licensed the ethylbenzene and styrene process technologies from US firm Badger Licensing in 2011. Ethylene and benzene feedstocks will be combined to form et...
Volume: 56Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2013 -
QPI Steps Back From Tunisia Refinery Project
...newed this interest after the 2011 revolution that ousted former president Zein al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali. Recent political developments may have played their part in QPI's decision. The moderate Islamist Ennahda party has agreed to relinquish power to a caretaker government that is to prepare fo...
Volume: 56Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2013 -
Iraq Signs Misan Deal With Satarem As Refineries Program Gathers Pace
...r Misan refinery in 2009. These were completed in early 2011. In 2010, US firm KBR was awarded contracts by the oil ministry for licensing and basic engineering for a 47,500 b/d fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit and a 45,000 b/d solvent deasphalting unit to be built at the Misan refinery. The mi...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013 -
Algeria Launches Biskra Amid Problems For North African Refiners
...5 Completion of 35,000 b/d expansion in May 2013 took Skikda capacity to 335,000 b/d. Egypt 726 Egypt’s net product demand nearing refining capacity before 2011 regime change. Libya 38...
Volume: 56Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013 -
Jubail Specialty Chemicals Boost
...e MMA unit is set to be the largest ever and will incorporate MRC’s proprietary Alpha technology, which uses methanol, ethylene and carbon monoxide as feedstock. At the launch of the joint venture in 2011 to build the plants, a SABIC official described Alpha as a “breakthrough technology.” Me...
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013 -
Petro Rabigh Cracker: Limited Restart
...488.9mn ($130.4mn) for 2012 and SR65.9mn ($17.6mn) for 2011, when a “plant shutdown was experienced due to periodical test and inspection.” In related news, Petrochem reported to the Tadawul exchange on 24 September that its polymer plant was forced to shut down for 10-12 days due to a fault wi...
Volume: 56Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2013 -
Abu Dhabi Puts Tacaamol Back On Track With Aromatics FEED
...omatics compounds. Subsequently the Tacaamol owners – Chemaweyaat (51%) and IPIC (49%) – decided to make the plan more manageable by splitting Tacaamol into three phases. UK-based Halcrow Group, which was acquired by CH2M Hill in November 2011, was awarded a contract in December 2010 to develop th...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
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 -
Qatar Nears Full GTL Output, Eyes Competitors’ Projects
...ntribution” to growth. The plant sold its first product shipment in June 2011. South Africa’s petrochemical producer Sasol has also boosted output and plans a further increase at its 32,400 b/d Oryx project, Qatar’s other GTL plant – QP (51%) and Sasol (49%). It may have finally reached full stable ou...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
OPEC’s MENA Refiners Holding Steady Ahead Of Capacity Surge
...fects of frequent disruptions through workers’ protests and militia operations. Meanwhile, Algeria’s recent data has been impacted by major upgrades at Skikda refinery (MEES, 19 July).OPEC said that total refining capacity of member countries fell by 1.4% in 2012 compared with 2011. The organization he...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
GCC Polypropylene Boosted By Conversion Push
...bolstering demand for PP in a region which has long been a net exporter. The GCC PP resin market for local conversion was worth $983mn in 2011, says Frost & Sullivan, but is expected to grow to $1.366bn by 2016. “GCC states’ easy access to PP resin, owing to their large oil and gas re...
Volume: 56Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2013 -
Iran Takes Steps Towards Planned Tripling Of Gasoline Output
...ans (B/D) From To Status At Existing Refineries Arak 29,370 99,840 On-line November 2011...
Volume: 56Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2013 -
Indonesia Spikes Aramco Refinery, Knocks Back KPC
...r similar tax breaks made by state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) overseas downstream subsidiary, Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI). KPI signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Indonesia’s Pertamina in 2011 for a 200,000-300,000 b/d refinery and petrochemicals complex in West Ja...
Volume: 56Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2013 -
Saudi Mega-Projects Take Shape As Sadara Completes Financing
...cember 2014. IPC in June 2012 obtained a SR1.4bn ($373mn) loan from four Saudi banks and in November 2011 a SR600mn ($160mn) loan from Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF). Meanwhile, on 13 June US plastics firm Invista announced an exclusive agreement with Petrochemical Conversion Company (PC...
Volume: 56Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2013