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Algeria Refining And Petchems: Ambitious Vision, Feedstock A Big Concern
...nder for the new refineries at Biskra and Tiaret with a view to a 2017 start-up. However, Sonatrach has yet to award front-end engineering and design (FEED) and project management consultancy contracts for either. Meanwhile, Sonatrach planning director Lamine Ouis told last week’s North African Oil an...
Volume: 57Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 19 Dec 2014 -
Oman Advances Downstream Projects
...pelines and terminal are expected to be operational in the first half of 2017. The MSPP will carry up to 93,000 b/d of products between Orpic’s Mina al-Fahal refinery near Muscat, the Sohar refinery, a storage terminal at Jifnain and Muscat International Airport. The system will include 290km of re...
Volume: 57Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 19 Dec 2014 -
Capacity Build Takes Saudi Refinery Runs To Record 2.17Mn B/D
...heduled for 2017 start-up. Further ahead, Oman is looking to build a 230,000 b/d refinery at Duqm for 2018 start-up, Kuwait is planning a 615,000 b/d plant at Al-Zour, which is due online in 2019, and Bahrain plans to raise Sitra refinery capacity by 93,000 b/d, also for 2019. Meanwhile, Qatar and Ir...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Bahrain Refinery Revamp To Boost Heavy Oil Upgrading
...y, Bapco’s CEO told MEES that the firm was still in discussions with Saudi Aramco – even though Bapco plans to fund the pipeline itself. The new pipeline will likely be completed in 2017 or 2018, with at least a year to spare before the refinery expansion is commissioned. The expansion is part of...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Speciality Petchems Transformation Focuses On Aromatics
...14 Jazan* 830 2017 Produced by catalytic reforming of naphtha Benzene Satorp, Jubail 150 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Gulf Refinery Expansions Mean 1mn B/D Products Exports From 2015
...an’s benchmark crude deteriorates (MEES, 6 June). Aramco’s 400,000 b/d Jazan refinery is scheduled for start-up in 2017, having been slowed by consideration of a plan to expand a proposed 2.4GW power plant that will be linked to the refinery. Eventually Aramco returned to the original 2.4GW ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Key Project Shelved As Qatar Shifts Petchems Strategy
...500 2017 Linear α-Olefins 300 Oxo-Alcohols 250 Qatofin LLDPE (ex...
Volume: 57Issue: 39Published at Fri, 26 Sep 2014 -
Egypt: Gas Shortage Fuels Record Diesel Demand
...e map) to 825,000 b/d by 2017 (MEES, 22 August). Assiut Oil Refining this month secured $198mn financing from Saudi Arabia-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to help fund a $2.9bn upgrade of its 47,000 b/d plant 320km south of Cairo. A 26,000 b/d hydrocracker at the refinery will convert heavy fu...
Volume: 57Issue: 37Published at Fri, 12 Sep 2014 -
Egypt Downstream Revival Continues With Midor Expansion
...st $1bn and be completed by the end of 2017. Construction will be carried out by Egypt’s Petrojet, while engineering and procurement will be undertaken by petroleum ministry engineering unit ENPPI. The Petrojet/ENPPI consortium last year completed an 18,200 b/d naphtha hydrotreater at the 100,000 b/d Al...
Volume: 57Issue: 34Published at Fri, 22 Aug 2014 -
Iran Lays Giant Condensate Export ‘Refinery’ Bait For Foreign Investors
...cluding condensate plants) to 2.04mn b/d (see table). But, of these, only Persian Gulf Star is currently making significant progress. NIORDC says its first 120,000 b/d splitter is 75% complete and due online in 2015. However, the IEA says Persian Gulf Star’s first unit will not start-up until 2017 (MEES, 27...
Volume: 57Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2014 -
New Gulf Refineries To Make Middle East Major Products Exporter
...18 36 Karbala Iraq 140 2019 Mid-19 - Jazan S Arabia 400 2017 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
MENA Leads OPEC Refining Hike As First Mega-Refinery Comes Onstream
...wly released Annual Statistical Bulletin 2014. The data includes the first of the Gulf mega-refineries to be completed: the 400,000 b/d Satorp joint venture of Saudi Aramco and France’s Total. The similar-sized Aramco/Sinopec Yasref refinery and Aramco Jazan refinery are due onstream in 2014 and 2017...
Volume: 57Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2014 -
Orpic Awards Liwa Technology Licenses As Gulf Petchem Juggernaut Rolls On
...abia 2016 50 polyacetal SABIC/Mitsubishi Jubail, S Arabia 2017 250 MMA, 40 PMMA QP/Shell (Al-Karaana) Ras Laffan, Qatar 2017...
Volume: 57Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2014 -
Turkey’s Petkim Nears Ethylene Expansion
...tkim complex, which currently relies on imports. Petkim has signed a 20-year agreement with the STAR Rafineri company for the supply of 270,000 t/y of mixed xylenes and 1.6mn t/y of naphtha. Socar Turkey aims to start up the refinery in 2017. Socar Turkey recently secured a total $3.29bn of loans fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2014 -
Kuwait Clarifies Al-Zour Plans, Iraq Projects Halted
...r “mid-year”. The Aramco-Sinopec Yasref refinery has a target start-up date of 30 September. Aramco’s Jazan refinery is now expected online in 2017 after a six-month delay in tendering a linked power project. UAE’s Ruwais Expansion was scheduled for 1Q14 start-up, but commissioning is now under way fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
Aramco Doubles Stake In Korean Refiner, Part Of Global Downstream Push
...92mn b/d, and is a partner in three refineries – two in Saudi Arabia and one in China – with a combined capacity of 1.06mn b/d which are due onstream by the end of 2017. Alongside the refinery, S-Oil also operates the Bunker-C Cracking Center (BCC), which processes Bunker-C (No 6 fuel oil) output from th...
Volume: 57Issue: 27Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2014 -
Mideast Refining Capacity Boost Underscores Growing ‘Hub’ Role- IEA
...minent deadline will be hit. Mideast Cdu Capacity (Mn B/D) Middle East Crude Distillation Capacity, Oil Products Demand 2013-19 (Mn B/D) 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
UN: How GCC Petchems Players Can Combat Shale Revolution
...s Laffan, Qatar 2017 6.4 Chemaweyaat ADIC (40), IPIC (40), ADNOC (20) Al-Gharbia, UAE 2018 11.0-20.0 Al-Se...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Turkey’s Petkim Readies For Integration Of STAR Refinery
...ochu, under a $3.5bn engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract. Petkim plans to start up the plant in the first half of 2017 and does not foresee a shutdown for the hook-up of the two plants. Tecnicas Reunidas says the refinery will produce 4.8mn t/y of ultra-low su...
Volume: 57Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2014 -
Saudi Refineries Output 2013
...amco 62.5%, Sinopec 37.5% 400 from 2017 Ja...
Volume: 57Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2014