Saudi Arabia >> 12/17/2005 - Sulfur Recovery Unit Train 3, completed by the Central Region Projects Division of the Central and Western Regions Projects Department under a separate project from Trains 1 and 2, was commissioned at... |
Austria >> 12/16/2005 - A relatively mild weather, along with higher imports and refinery runs, caused contra-seasonal middle distillate stock-builds in the USA and resulted in a further drop in the prices of various product... |
Saudi Arabia >> 12/7/2005 - The Saudi Arabian Capital Market Authority (CMA) has given approval for the initial public offering of 35% of shares in SABIC affiliate Yanbu National Petrochemicals Company (YANSAB) on the Saudi mark... |
Kenya >> 12/1/2005 - Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its UK subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energy Limited has been awarded a contract by Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL) to prepare the basis of design (BOD) for the... |
Oman >> 11/20/2005 - Aromatics Oman — the $1.1 billion-world-class green field petrochemical complex planned in Sohar Industrial Area — is expected to sign an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract and f... |
Austria >> 11/16/2005 - Positive developments in the US refining industry and natural gas output, combined with the resolution of a strike at Europe’s biggest refinery and slowing Asian demand over the last couple of weeks, ... |
Kuwait >> 11/14/2005 - The Kuwait National Petroleum Company announced last week it is building a new refinery with an overall capacity of 615,000 barrels per day, the largest to be built so far in Kuwait, to join other wor... |
Iran >> 11/14/2005 - Implementation of five petrochemical plants on West Ethylene Pipeline (WEP) route is to start by yearend. The go-ahead was given by the Majlis and cabinet. The site selection studies are underway, exe... |
Indonesia >> 11/12/2005 - A subsidiary of the Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina in cooperation with an Iranian oil enterprise will build an oil refinery in Indonesia, Persian service of ISNA reported. The... |
United States >> 11/10/2005 - Gasoline prices and hurricanes have stimulated much discussion about the U.S. refining industry's ability to meet America's growing demand for gasoline and other fuels. Let's consider the facts. To st... |
Kuwait >> 11/9/2005 - The Assistant CEO of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), Hatem Al-Awadhi said that the new refinery project would be the largest in the company's history and among the largest in the world, ... |
Syria >> 11/8/2005 - Russian company Stroytransgaz has proposed constructing an oil refinery and petrochemicals plant in Syria at an estimated cost of $2 billion, Syrian oil minister Ibrahim Haddad said. Haddad said that ... |
United States >> 11/7/2005 - Motiva Enterprises LLC, a joint venture between Shell Oil Company and Saudi Refining Inc, has selected KBR to provide conceptualization, planning and early design services for a major refinery expansi... |
Egypt >> 10/27/2005 - During the next period, a large industrial project will be constructed with investment exceedind 350 million USD to produce Ammonia. The plant will be located on 260 thousands square meters in the ind... |
Saudi Arabia >> 10/26/2005 - Sixty years ago, Ras Tanura Refinery went online, replacing a 3,000 barrel per day "tea kettle" refinery built just a few years before. That refinery, with a capacity of 50,000 barrels per day (bpd), ... |
United Arab Emirates >> 10/24/2005 - The Abu Dhabi-based International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) and OMV, Central Europe's leading oil and gas group, have finalised the purchase of 50 per cent of Borealis in a deal worth 920 mi... |
Saudi Arabia >> 10/24/2005 - Capital investment in hydrocarbon sub-sectors in Saudi Arabia is slated to reach $94.4 billion in the years 2004-2009 according to Dr. Abdulwahab AlSadoun, the Director General of the Energy Sector at... |
Austria >> 10/17/2005 - Sharp refinery outages in the USA as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, along with the falling natural gas
output in the US Gulf Coast and fear of a product shortage in the winter season, hav... |
Egypt >> 10/10/2005 - A group including Egyptian, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti investors plans to build a refinery in Egypt worth more than $1 billion and with capacity to process 130,000 barrels per day of oil, an executive ... |
Egypt >> 10/8/2005 - SABIC reaffirmed that it will not enter into competition to buyout 60% of Egyptian Sidi Krier Petrochemicals Company’s shares. SABIC dismisses news recently published under the title: “SABIC competes ... |