Saudi Arabia >> 6/11/2006 - Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah is set to launch around 20 industrial and infrastructure projects worth more than SR81 billion at Jubail Industrial City today, Prince Saud ibn Abdullah... |
Iran >> 6/1/2006 - Iran is set to build a 120,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery by 2009 to process its low-quality sour Sorush and Noruz crude as the OPEC member works to double refining capacity by 2011, an Iranian off... |
Saudi Arabia >> 5/1/2006 - Mohamed Al-Mady, Vice Chairman and CEO of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), announced that SABIC is a strategic partner in the formation of the Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company. This follow... |
Saudi Arabia >> 4/25/2006 - Saudi Aramco and the Egyptian company Engineering for Petroleum and Process Industries (ENPPI) recently signed contract to further expand Saudi Aramco's growing feedstock supply for the petrochemical ... |
Egypt >> 4/19/2006 - Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and his Kuwaiti Counterpart discussed joint cooperation facets between Egypt and Kuwait in the fields of gas, petrochemicals and petroleum, in addition to reviewing the ... |
Iran >> 4/18/2006 - Arak Petrochemical Complex (APC) experienced a 59% increase in product value last year noting 31% and 28% price growth in domestic and foreign markets respectively, Hassan Rajabi said here Monday. Ove... |
Iran >> 4/17/2006 - The Oil Ministry has on its agenda the construction of three refineries for oil and gas condensates as well as refurbishing a number of other refineries as a result of which the issue of gasoline shor... |
Saudi Arabia >> 4/4/2006 - Saudi International Petrochemicals Company (Sipchem) has awarded to Fluor Canada a contract for the construction of an Acetic Acid plant with an annual production capacity of 460 thousand tons, a Viny... |
China >> 3/31/2006 - The CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPC), 50 per cent owned by Shell Nanhai BV, a member of the Shell Group, marked the successful start of operations of its new $4.3 billion petroche... |
China >> 3/7/2006 - Shell China Holdings B.V. has signed an agreement to acquire Koch Materials China (Hong Kong) Limited (KMC), which is involved in the manufacture and marketing of bitumen in China. The deal will more ... |
Saudi Arabia >> 3/2/2006 - PETRORabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical signed financing agreements with Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF) a... |
Egypt >> 2/14/2006 - The ministry of Petroleum will start carrying out 2 large projects for petrochemicals with investment from the Egyptian private sector and Canada. The projects will produce 1.65 million ton of Methano... |
Algeria >> 2/8/2006 - Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) has signed an initial agreement with the Algerian state-owned oil & gas company Sonatrach for the establishment of a one million ton per year greenfield ammonia/u... |
Iran >> 2/6/2006 - Tabriz Petrochemical Complex (TPC) annual production capacity is to reach 850,000 tons within two years upon completion of new plans of which some are underway, executive director of the complex Sadri... |
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Saudi Arabia >> 1/22/2006 - Zamil Group and the Huntsman Corporation of USA announced their intention to form a joint venture to build a world scale Ethyleneamines manufacturing facility in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, ... |
Austria >> 1/20/2006 - Crude oil prices drifted lower on forecasts of mild weather in January in the Northern Hemisphere, while product prices retained
more of their value due mainly to strong distillate prices on the back... |
China >> 12/30/2005 - CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPC) announced that construction of its world-scale petrochemicals complex at Daya Bay, Guangdong, is complete and final preparations are being made fo... |
Austria >> 12/26/2005 - The market volatility witnessed in recent months has been, to a large extent, the result of imbalance between the available refining capacity and the demand for petroleum products. Until the necessary... |
Iran >> 12/24/2005 - The Polycarbonate Unit of Khuzestan Petrochemical Complex, the first polycarbonate unit in the country, will come on stream by the end of the current Iranian year, falling on March 19, 2006, Masud Jam... |