1. Saudi Aramco’s Master Gas System: A Work In Progress

    ...twork last year (MEES, 26 May 2020).  SAUDI ARABIA: KEY POWER INFRASTRUCTURE   SAUDI ARABIA SALES GAS* OUTPUT HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY CLIMBING YEAR-ON-YEAR (BN CFD)*CONVERTED FROM BTU TO CFD UNTIL 2011. SOURCE: SAUDI ARAMCO, MEES....

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 32
    Published at Fri, 13 Aug 2021
  2. Homs Refinery Fire Sheds Light On Syria’s Murky Fuel Markets

    ...om government-controlled territories at 20,000 b/d, whilst plans to boost production to 100,000 b/d at fields Damascus has re-captured have gone nowhere (MEES, 17 January 2020). Prior to the outbreak of civil war in 2011, national oil output, all government controlled, was 390,000 b/d (MEES, 22 Ja...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 14 May 2021
  3. Yemen Takes Delivery Of Saudi Products Shipments

    ...started in 2019 and is currently running at around 10,000 b/d (MEES, 15 January). A planned second phase 400MW expansion was awarded to India’s BHL for $436mn in 2011 with work beginning in 2014 (MEES, 9 August 2013). The project was financed by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the Sa...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 14 May 2021
  4. Oman’s OQ Raises $750mn Bond As It Looks To Bring Delayed Downstream Projects Online

    ...nterpiece of a new industrial city – the Special Economic Zone (SEZAD) of Duqm, which was established in 2011 to “diversify the national economy.” To provide power and water to SEZAD, Oman is building a 326MW combined cycle power plant integrated with a 36,000m³/day reverse osmosis desalination plant close to...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 07 May 2021
  5. Libya’s Crippled Refining Sector Struggles To Meet Demand

    ...meplate capacity (see table 1). The bulk of current output, which meets only about half of the country’s domestic consumption, comes from the 120,000 b/d Zawiya refinery west of Tripoli. Even before the 2011 revolution Libya’s refining fleet was in desperate need of upgrades due to Gaddafi-era sa...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 09
    Published at Fri, 05 Mar 2021
  6. Egypt Downstream: ERC Boosts Output & Exports To 2020 Records Despite Covid Slump

    ...– at 649,000 b/d the latter was up 21% year-on-year including record output of gasoline (97,000 b/d) and jet-kero (68,000 b/d) with diesel output of 171,000 b/d just fractionally below the all-time high set in 2011.   *But for Q2, output of all products slumped versus Q1, with the overall ou...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021
  7. Saudi Arabia’s Oil Sector In 2020: Assessing A Tumultuous Year

    ...mand of 455,000 b/d was the lowest since 2011 and down 17% year-on-year. Demand bottomed out at 231,000 b/d in April amid tight Covid-19 mobility restrictions and while it rebounded to 530,000 b/d in October, it exited the year at 488,000 b/d. The impact on diesel demand was more muted due to the fu...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 19 Feb 2021
  8. Gas Plant Inauguration Boosts Iran’s Petchems Outlook

    ...t to go-ahead (MEES, 10 October 2014). As MEES wrote at the time, Iran was struggling with gas supply issues that called its ambitious petchems expansion into question (MEES, 31 January 2011). The easing of sanctions in 2015 following the JCPOA ‘nuclear deal’ gave an opportunity to bring foreign co...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 04
    Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2021