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GCC Petchems Producers Need To Broaden Feedstock-Aramco
...07 2009 2011 2013 Saudi Arabia 36.1 44.1 54.4 73.0 83.1 91.5 Qa...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Bahrain Refinery Revamp To Boost Heavy Oil Upgrading
...mpletion in 2019 (MEES, 19 September). More Modest The current plan is more modest than an earlier incarnation, which envisaged Sitra capacity being expanded to 450,000 b/d. CLG completed a FEED study for this scenario in 2011. Around 45,000 b/d of the crude currently processed at Sitra comes fr...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Speciality Petchems Transformation Focuses On Aromatics
...e key components of Aramco’s refining expansion and push into petrochemicals under its Accelerated Transformation Program launched in 2011 to turn Aramco into “a fully integrated global energy enterprise.” Aramco CEO Khalid al-Falih says the program will “not only significantly expand our existing ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Iran Faces $40Bn Petchems Project Backlog, Uncertain Gas Supplies
...e crackers and polymers plants are around 60% built and intended to be brought onstream by the end of 2015. All the projects could be completed in four years’ time, she says, if the “needed timely investment” is made. NPC’s 2011 Annual Report – only recently published – says NPC’s total pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
Egypt: Gas Shortage Fuels Record Diesel Demand
...14 vs1H13 vs 2009 vs 2004 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 CRUDE OIL: Production* 666 -10...
Volume: 57Issue: 37Published at Fri, 12 Sep 2014 -
Israel Refineries Hit Throughput Record, Diesel Exports Boom
...14 1H13 ‘000 b/d ***% 2013 2012 ‘000 b/d ***% 2011 2010 2009 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
GTL Back On The Radar For Mideast Downstream Planners
...2006 Qatar Shell/QP Pearl GTL, Ras Laffan 140 2011 Pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 35Published at Fri, 29 Aug 2014 -
MENA Leads OPEC Refining Hike As First Mega-Refinery Comes Onstream
...0 B/D) 13 vs 12 13 vs 09 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 ‘00...
Volume: 57Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2014 -
Saudi Leads Capacity Expansion But Mideast Runs Slide-BP
...finery, Oman’s 230,000 b/d Duqm refinery and Kuwait’s 615,000 b/d Al-Zour refinery (MEES, 2 May). Middle East Refining Key Numbers (Mn B/D) Middle East Refining Capacity (‘000 B/D) 2009 2011 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 25Published at Fri, 20 Jun 2014 -
Fertilizer Boost For Algeria’s Battered Petchems Industry
...hylene throughput had been on a downward trajectory since 2006 and most units were shut down in 2011 (see chart). The plant had the capacity to produce 120,000 t/y of ethylene, 48,000 t/y of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), 130,000 t/y of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and 35,000 t/y of PVC. El...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Iraq Petchems Exports Possible After 2020
...ntracts for the Siba and Mansuriya non-associated gas fields in the Western Desert, has spoken of rising costs of drilling at Mansuriya because of the heightened security risks. Of the four gas fields awarded in the lacklustre 2011 auction, Siba is expected to start production late this year or early ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Saudi Gifts Egypt Oil
...iro. Cutting energy subsidies has been an official government objective since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution in January 2011. Failure to introduce cuts in these subsidies and lower the budget deficit proved to be the stumbling block in the negotiations with the IMF over a $4.8bn loan to Egypt in...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Tupras Boosts Turkish Conversion Capacity
...mbined nameplate capacity of 562,000 b/d. Total output for 2013 dipped slightly to 442,000 b/d, but distillates output increased at the expense of fuel oil – to 68.5% of total output in 2013, from 65.3% in 2012 and 64% in 2011 (see table). Diesel output last year hit a record 115,300 b/d, whilst jet fu...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
Petro Rabigh, Chemanol Restart Offline Units
...rivatives – for an undisclosed period in 2015 for testing and inspection. This will be the plant’s second such shutdown since 2011, although the company says a five-year interval is typical for the industry. Petro Rabigh was hit last year by two utilities outages that necessitated repair and maintenance work on...
Volume: 57Issue: 18Published at Fri, 02 May 2014 -
Saudi Tankers Merger Gets Green Light
...hri’s 107 VLCC voyages in 2011 were 45% Middle East Gulf to East Asia, 30% Middle East Gulf to the US, and 25% West Africa to East Asia. “This means Bahri will have a large portion of spare VLCC capacity to deploy on the Middle East-Europe and US routes, once it completes the purchase,” said Audi Capital....
Volume: 57Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2014 -
GCC Polymers Increasing In Volume And Sophistication, Says GPCA
...08-13 Chg 2013-18 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 MN T % %/yr...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
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