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Qatar Awards Al-Sejeel FEED, Part Of 7mn T/Y Petchems Expansion
...ilt at Ras Laffan and due for 2017 start-up. The plant will have capacity to produce 1.5mn t/y of monoethylene glycol (MEG), 300,000 t/y of linear alpha olefins and 250,000 t/y of oxo-alcohols. QP and Shell awarded the Al-Karaana FEED project to US firm Fluor. It will utilize Shell’s proprietary MEG pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 20 Dec 2013 -
Kuwait Plans Big Downstream Strides, But Takes Small Steps
...velopment of a 200,000 b/d joint venture refinery in Vietnam, which is due onstream in 2017 (MEES, 2 August), and is assessing a number of similar prospects across Southeast Asia. Kuwaiti officials have held talks with China about a planned joint refinery, but negotiations have reached a standstill. Ho...
Volume: 56Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2013 -
Sonatrach To Replace Skikda Plastics Complex
...trochemicals project would face competition for state funding from other downstream plans. Sonatrach recently started building a new refinery at Biskra, the first of four 100,000 b/d plants due onstream in 2017. The company has proposed building a petrochemicals plant alongside the Biskra refinery, which Mr Yo...
Volume: 56Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2013 -
Oman Takes Its Place In Gulf Refining Expansion
...gineering and design (FEED) for a $6bn, 230,000 b/d refinery at Duqm. DRPIC has received both technical and commercial bids for the FEED, expected to take 14 months. Delays in awarding the design work are expected to push the refinery’s target start-up date back from 2017 to 2018. Once completed, DRPIC ai...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Gulf Petchem Firms Eye Additions To Busy Projects Schedule
...16 EPR, TPO, MMA, PMMA, LDPE/EVA, polyols, SAP, nylon 6 SABIC/Celanese Jubail, S Arabia 2016 50,000 t/y polyacetal QP/Shell Ras Laffan, Qatar 2017...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013 -
Algeria Launches Biskra Amid Problems For North African Refiners
...9bn). Algeria plans to tender for identical refineries at Biskra and Tiaret, and has set a 2017 start-up target for these and similar refineries at Ghardia and Messaoud. Minister of Energy and Mines Yousef Yousfi has also said that Biskra could form the core of a regional petrochemical hub (MEES, 15 Ma...
Volume: 56Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013 -
Dubai Refinery Doubts Amid Gulf Capacity Surge
...16 start-up Saudi Aramco Jazan, S Arabia New 400,000 b/d plant due onstream 2017 OOC/IPIC (DRPIC) Duqm, Oman New 230,000 b/d plant due onstream 2017 Sa...
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013 -
Gulf Refiners Ramp Up Capacity
...an 230 2017 KNPC Al-Zour, Kuwait 615 2018-21 Source: MEES. Schedule Uncertainty Kuwait’s 446,000 b/d Mina Al-Ahmadi and 270,000 b/d Mina Abdullah refineries also un...
Volume: 56Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2013 -
Abu Dhabi Puts Tacaamol Back On Track With Aromatics FEED
...12, with the aim of plant start-up in late 2017. The award of the first FEED only now suggests that start-up of the aromatics plant cannot be expected before 2018. Besides the reformer and aromatics units, Tacaamol Phase 1 will include a pipeline from the Ruwais refinery, an export tank farm, a jetty an...
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 -
Orpic Tenders Liwa FEED As Oman Joins Middle East Plastics Boom
...,000 t/y iso-butanol SABIC/Celanese Jubail, Saudi Arabia 2016 50,000 t/y polyacetal QP/Shell Ras Laffan, Qatar (Al-Karaana) 2017 1....
Volume: 56Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2013 -
Qatar Nears Full GTL Output, Eyes Competitors’ Projects
...,000 2014 $9.5bn Chevron (75%) NNPC (25%) Uzbekistan GTL Uzbekistan 33,000 2017-18 $4bn Sasol (44.5%), Malaysia’s Petronas (11...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
Kuwait Fast Tracks Refinery Projects
...madi – a fifth NGL fractionation train – is expected to tender for construction contracts in 3-6 months. “Muhammad al-Mutairi is really pushing the fifth train,” the contractor says. Capacity will be 105,000 b/d of LPG and condensate and 800mn cfd of ethane and natural gas. For 2017, when the fifth train is...
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013 -
Orpic: Plastic Expansion
...,000 b/d of condensate) Khazzan-Makarem tight gas field project starts up. The project will set a new price range the government is prepared to pay gas producers to attract upstream investment. It is due to start up in the first half of 2017....
Volume: 56Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2013 -
Kuwait JV Awards Foster Wheeler Vietnam Refinery PMC
...nstruction contractor (EPC) consortium through to the completion of performance testing.” Foster Wheeler carried out front end engineering for the project under a contract awarded in July 2008. Total investment will be $9bn with commercial operations due to begin in 2017, Foster Wheeler says. The plant will ha...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
IEA Sees Mixed Fortunes For North African, Mideast Refiners
...skra and Tiaret. These are among four 100,000 b/d refineries planned for start-up in 2017 (MEES, 15 March). Algeria’s planning appears to be getting increasingly ambitious, with Ali Hached – advisor to energy minister Yousef Yousfi – telling reporters in early July that the country aims to build six re...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
QP And Qapco Award Al-Sejeel FEED to Bechtel
...th a target of raising total petrochemical output to 23mn t/y by 2020 from 16.8mn t/y at end-2012. Earlier QP and Shell awarded US firm Fluor a FEED contract for the Al-Karaana petrochemicals complex at Ras Laffan. This is due to start up in 2017 with capacity to produce 1.5mn t/y of monoethylene gl...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
QP, Qapco Sign Al-Sejeel Polymers Deals
...llows the award by QP and Shell to US firm Fluor of a FEED contract for the planned Al-Karaana petrochemicals complex at Ras Laffan. Al-Karaana is due to start up in 2017 and will have capacity to produce 1.5mn t/y of monoethylene glycol, 300,000 t/y of linear alpha olefins and 250,000 t/y of oxo-al...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
Mideast Refining Capacity Edges Up, Runs Fall
...st ambitious expansion plan – three 400,000 b/d capacity refineries, due onstream in 2013, 2014 and 2016. The UAE is building a 417,000 b/d plant which is due onstream in 2014, while Algeria’s Sonatrach has announced a plan to build four 100,000 b/d capacity refineries for 2017 start-up. Also Oman is lo...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
KPI Vietnam Refinery OK’d
...nture, with KPI holding 35.1%, PetroVietnam 25.1% and Mitsui 4.7%. Following the FID and cofinancing agreement, construction is expected to begin in July 2013. Construction is slated to be completed in 2016 and commercial operations are scheduled to begin in 2017. The refinery will be built in th...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013