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Jordan Looks To Climb On The Green Hydrogen Bandwagon
...ovided 27% of Jordan’s 2022 power, up from just 1% in 2014. But the ambitious plans face many challenges, including a severe water shortage. A 2019 Jordanian-German Energy Partnership said that despite Jordan’s “promising” potential for green hydrogen, including a “mature chemical industry” and ex...
Volume: 66Issue: 49Published at Fri, 08 Dec 2023 -
Iraq Eyes 2024 Refining Boost With 150,000 b/d Baiji CDU Re-Build
...rrorist group when it overran the refinery in 2014 (MEES, 26 September 2014). Now, Iraq’s Oil Minister Hayan Abdulghani has set an ambitious target for it “to begin operations” by 1Q 2024. If successful, this would bring back Baiji capacity to its original 290,000 b/d, after the 70,000 b/d Saladin 1 an...
Volume: 66Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2023 -
Iraq’s Karbala Refinery Hits Full Capacity Despite Unresolved Technical Issues
...nancial delays that have afflicted other capital projects in Iraq, not least the Karbala refinery itself which was awarded almost a decade ago (MEES, 10 January 2014). A much-delayed 2015 project to add a new 70,000 b/d CDU at the 350,000 b/d Basrah Refinery is now slated for end-year completion, af...
Volume: 66Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 -
Questions Over Australia’s LNG Future Open Opportunity For Qatar
...June). These alone added to current supplies would propel Qatar above Australia’s 2022 volumes. Should Australian supplies fail to return to 2021’s record levels, then Qatar could be challenging for the No.1 position in China in the second half of the decade for the first time since 2014. Qa...
Volume: 66Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2023 -
Iraq’s New Karbala Refinery Set To Lighten Summer Fuel Import Bill
...finery is providing the first significant modern addition to Iraq’s delipidated refining fleet since at least the 1980s. Nine-years after its 2014 award to a consortium led by Korea’s Hyundai Engineering (MEES, 10 January 2014), the plant began commercial operations earlier this month (MEES, 7 Ap...
Volume: 66Issue: 16Published at Fri, 21 Apr 2023 -
Libya’s Mabruk: ‘2023 Restart’
...Operator TotalEnergies says its Mabruk field in Libya’s Sirte Basin oil heartland “is expected to restart its production in 2023.” The field on blocks 70 and 87 has been shut in since December 2014 when it was overrun by Islamic State-affiliated militants with the surface facilities su...
Volume: 66Issue: 13Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2023 -
QatarEnergy To Take Over LNG Marketing Role
...naging Director (subsequently CEO) in 2014 (MEES, 19 September 2014). Mr Kaabi’s tenure has been characterized by three primary tenets – aggressive expansion, streamlining of operations and squeezing IOC partners. This latest initiative arguably facilitates all three and underlines the extent to wh...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Qatar Takes FID On Huge Petrochemicals Complex
...at Qatar had axed its previous planned facilities in late 2014 and 2015 amid a reappraisal of its petrochemical strategy (MEES, 16 January 2015). Back in 2017, Mr Kaabi suggested the facility would have around 1.6mn t/y capacity. But by the time Chevron Phillips was awarded a 30% stake in June 20...
Volume: 66Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2023