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Kuwait Clean Fuels Progress Impacts Refining Output
...e highest since mid-2015, suggesting a new, or revamped, gasoline unit is operating (see chart). However, average total products output of 864,000 b/d during the first 10 months of 2019 is only 3% down from the 891,000 b/d for both 2017 and 2018, showing that CFP work to the end of October has no...
Volume: 62Issue: 51-52Published at Fri, 20 Dec 2019 -
Kuwait Nears Boost To Refinery Throughputs, Eyes Al-Zour Petchems
...s two operating refineries. But delays to the clean fuels upgrade project mean that the expansion work is unlikely to be completed until the second half of 2020. KNPC shut down its aging 200,000 b/d capacity Shuaiba refinery at the end of March 2017, leaving Kuwait with just 736,000 b/d ca...
Volume: 62Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2019 -
Aramco India Strategy Hit By $26bn Price Hike At Downstream JV
...uld conceivably include high value products such as those produced by Aramco and US firm Dow at their Sadara plant at Jubail (MEES, 28 July 2017). Reliance is “the world’s largest integrated producer of polyester fibre and yarn.” Other products include polymers, aromatics, elastomers and composite ma...
Volume: 62Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2019 -
New Hydrocracker Boosts Egypt To New Downstream Records
...the 1969-vintage Cairo refinery which they have been built alongside. Though the plant has a nominal 199,000 b/d of crude distillation capacity, typical throughputs in recent years have not topped half this: they were 96,000 b/d for 2017-18, the latest available data. And of the plant’s 2017-18 ou...
Volume: 62Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2019 -
Iraq Refining: Output Tops 800,000 B/D For First Time In Q3
...*Federal Iraq’s total refinery output continued its upward surge, averaging 801,000 b/d in Q3 versus 760,000 b/d in 3Q 2018 and just 540,000 b/d in 3Q 2017. August’s 826,000 b/d was an all-time record. *The rehabilitation of the Salahuddin-1 and Salahuddin-2 (both 70,000 b/d) units at...
Volume: 62Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2019 -
Rabigh-2 Completion Broadens Saudi Petchems Palette
...9mn t/y mixed-feed cracker and an aromatics plant, processing locally available ethane and naphtha to deliver a range of high-value chemicals – many new to the kingdom for the first time – as well as polyolefins (MEES, 18 August 2017). Aramco’s Petro Rabigh JV processes ethane as well as naphtha from th...
Volume: 62Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2019 -
Gulf Condensate Splitters Bring Economic, Strategic Gains
...gineering arm of the Tehran regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) built PGS. Work on phase one started in 2007 as the first sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program were introduced and was only completed in 2017 (MEES, 5 May 2017). With Iran again under sanctions but three PGS phases co...
Volume: 62Issue: 43Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019 -
Aramco Eyes Major Ethylene-Based Texas Expansion
...creasingly in demand in the automotive market (MEES, 28 July 2017). Satorp refinery already has aromatics capacity, delivering up to 1mn t/y of paraxylene, benzene and propylene. The Satorp partners are building an 800,000 t/y polyethylene plant as part of the integration, but are offering some of the cr...
Volume: 62Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2019 -
Northern Iraq Secures Vital Infrastructure Upgrades
...fensive, causing total federal Iraqi refining output to drop from over 600,000 b/d in 2013 to just under 400,000 b/d by early 2015. Baghdad has since managed to raise refining capacity, with output jumping from an average of 539,000 b/d in 2017 to 718,000 b/d in 2018 but the north has struggled to feel the ef...
Volume: 62Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2019 -
Saudi Arabia Chases Ambitious Downstream Strategy
...come depends on crude oil prices. Aramco’s rising revenues during 2016-18 coincided with rising crude prices. Arab Light averaged $40.96/B in 2016, $52.59/B in 2017 and $70.34/B in 2018. A downturn in Aramco’s revenues for 2019 is likely given that the Arab Light price averaged $66.33/B in first ha...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
Aramco Eyes Chinese Take-Away From Sabic Purchase
...e polyurethane components and other chemicals manufactured at the Sadara joint venture plant of Aramco and US firm Down Chemical in the Saudi downstream hub of Jubail (MEES, 28 July 2017). Indeed China, and Asia more generally, are also key buyers from Saudi refineries. However, the focus has be...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Kuwait’s Delayed Refining Projects Set To Slip Further
...21. ^SHUT DOWN END-MAR 2017. SOURCE: KNPC, MEES. KUWAIT REFINED PRODUCTS OUTPUT (000 B/D) *INCLUDES OUTPUT FROM GAS PROCESSING PLANTS. SOURCE: JODI. Al ZOUR RETHINK Kipic, which is building a new refinery as well as integrated petrochemicals units and an LNG im...
Volume: 62Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2019 -
Aramco To Buy 20% Of Reliance Refining & Petchems
...DER CONSTRUCTION *MOTIVA JV WITH SHELL SPLIT 2Q 2017. ^ORIGINALLY CALLED 'RAPID'. **SITE CHANGED FROM RATNAGIRI. SOURCE: ARAMCO, PARTNERS....
Volume: 62Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2019 -
Kuwait In IMO 2020-Inspired Al Zour Rethink
...vised RFCC unit’s capacity will be 98,000 b/d. The upgrading project eventually moved forward in 2017 when UOP was awarded projects for a 50,000 b/d RFCC, a 66,000 b/d CCR and 74,000 b/d naphtha hydrotreater within the Al Zour complex (MEES, 8 December 2017). These latter two units will also likely se...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Hormuz Upheaval Spells Uncertainty For Fujairah Expansion Plans
...jairah (MEES, 19 July), and sales had already slipped since July 2017 when Qatar-vessels were banned. ADNOC PLANS FUJAIRAH TRADE BOOM Fujairah is central to Abu Dhabi state firm Adnoc’s plans to develop into a trading powerhouse. The firm is developing a massive 42mn barrel (6.8mn m³) un...
Volume: 62Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2019 -
Saudi Oil Sector Feeling The Strain Of Opec Cuts
...nsiderably higher than in recent years thanks to a massive expansion program. Gross exports are averaging 1.44mn b/d this year, substantially less than 2018’s record 1.97mn b/d, but still equal with 2017 for the second highest on record (see chart 3). On a net basis, refined products exports are on track to...
Volume: 62Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2019 -
Saudi Arabia Crude Exports Fell To A 19-Month Low In May ('000 B/D)
...CHANGES EXPRESSED IN PERCENTAGE POINT TERMS WHERE ORIGINAL FIGURES ARE PERCENTAGES. *EXCLUDES FIELD LPG (650-700,000 B/D). **NAPHTHA REFINERY OUTPUT INCLUDED IN 'OTHER' PRODUCTS TO DEC 2017 (479,000 B/D FOR 2017). ^PRESUMES ALL FUEL OIL CONSUMPTION IS BURNT IN POWER PLANTS. SOURCE: JO...
Volume: 62Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2019 -
End In Sight For Egypt’s Fuel Subsidies
...nce increased: after averaging $1= E£17.74 during the 2017-18 financial year it has been around $1= E£16.60 in recent weeks. Given that oil products are internationally-traded commodities priced in dollars, these prices largely determine the size of the country’s subsidy bill. Here Egypt has been ma...
Volume: 62Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019 -
Aramco Pushing Asian Downstream Projects In Major Crude-Buying Countries
...pacity of 2.68mn b/d, of which Asia refineries dominate with 2.04mn b/d. Aramco also operates the 635,000 b/d Motiva Port Arthur refinery in Texas, having bought out former JV partner Shell (MEES, 10 March 2017). Because of Aramco’s now outright ownership, Port Arthur is its largest overseas downstream as...
Volume: 62Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2019 -
Aramco Crude Oil To Chemicals Vision Takes Shape
...chnology; and 2025 may be a push as Aramco’s COTC technologies are so far not commercialized. Aramco and Sabic were developing crude-to-chemicals technologies separately before they signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in November 2017 to develop the COTC plant under a joint venture. Sabic filed a pa...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019