| Malaysia >> 3/16/2020 - A fire killed five people at an oil refining complex in southern Malaysia owned by Petronas and Saudi Aramco commercial operations this year. ... |
| Iran >> 3/14/2020 - Iran has decided to halt work on the expansion of its Abadan oil refinery until mid-April as part of measures to contain the new coronavirus outbreak. Iran contracted China’s Sinopec in 2017 to carry ... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 3/11/2020 - Refined oil product stockpiles at the Middle East hub of Fujairah fell 6.8 percent in the week to 9th March, led by a drop in light distillates amid signs that Middle East supplies of naphtha and gaso... |
| Algeria >> 2/25/2020 - Sidi Rezine has restarted its operations and increased its annual output to reach 3.645 million tons, up from 2.7 million tons, according to Reuters. ... |
| Algeria >> 2/24/2020 - The refinery upgrading and modernization projects will allow Algeria to export petrol from 2021, said the general manager of the Algiers refinery, Hassen Boukhalfa. ... |
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Egypt >> 2/14/2020 - A total of 29 international agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed during the Egypt Petroleum Show (EGYPS 2020), which concluded on Thursday. ... |
| Libya >> 2/10/2020 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) confirms that it was forced to shut down the Zawiya refinery on Saturday, February 8, 2020 as a result of a valve closure in the Hamada region, on the main pipeline betw... |
| Russia >> 1/31/2020 - Installation of integrated large-scale equipment for a new catalytic reforming unit is now complete at Gazprom Neft’s Omsk Refinery. Modernising this facility is expected to lead to a 1.5-fold increas... |
| China >> 1/2/2020 - China Sinochem Group is expected to start up a new crude processing unit and a petrochemical complex in southeastern China around mid-2020, marking the state firm’s first foray into making petrochemic... |
| India >> 11/27/2019 - The cost of a giant oil and petrochemicals refinery project to be built jointly by Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) in India is expected to reach $70 billion, WAM news agency report... |
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Egypt >> 11/23/2019 - The EBRD is supporting the modernisation of Egypt’s oil industry with a US$ 50 million loan to upgrade the oil refinery owned by Suez Oil Processing Company (SOPC). ... |
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Egypt >> 11/10/2019 - Qatar Petroleum is pleased to announce the successful start-up of the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC) Refinery project located in Mostorod, north of the Egyptian capital Cairo. Qatar Petroleum owns 38... |
| Qatar >> 10/27/2019 - Qatargas Operating Company Limited “Qatargas" has successfully managed to operate Laffan Refinery 1 (LR1) with zero Lost Time Injury (LTI) case for 10 years since started production in 2009. ... |
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Egypt >> 10/20/2019 - Egypt’s Qalaa Holdings, one of the country’s largest investment companies, announced that it would operate 100 percent of its refinery units in January. ... |
| Russia >> 10/15/2019 - The 12th international Argus Russia and CIS Oil Products conference has taken place in Moscow, supported by Gazprom Neft and attended by more than 150 experts from 18 countries. Representatives from t... |
| Russia >> 9/27/2019 - Gazprom Neft’s Omsk Refinery has acquired cutting-edge Russian equipment for its diesel fuels hydrotreatment and dewaxing complex. These key components of the future complex include chemical hydrotrea... |
| United Kingdom >> 9/25/2019 - Eni has opened the most innovative bio-refinery in Europe at Gela. Launched in August 2019, the plant has a processing capacity of up to 750,000 tonnes a year and will be able to treat increasing quan... |
| Russia >> 9/13/2019 - Gazprom Neft’s Omsk Refinery has embarked on a project to modernize its AVT-10 crude distillation unit (CDU) — an initiative which will see the complex expand its range of light oil products by five p... |
| Russia >> 8/14/2019 - Gazprom Neft is due to take delivery of large-scale equipment for diesel-fuel hydrotreatment and dewaxing facilities currently under the construction at its Omsk Refinery from Russian manufacturer Izh... |
| Nigeria >> 8/10/2019 - Africa’s largest oil refinery will not be finished until the end of 2020 due to problems importing steel and other equipment, executives at Dangote, which is building the facility in the Nigerian comm... |
