Refining & Petrochemicals

Chinese firm ZL EOR Chemicals has started production of polyacrylamide, a polymer used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR)...

Saudi Aramco and Pertamina are continuing to cooperate in preparing for the development of the Cilacap refinery, according to...

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) on 15 June said it had agreed to restore gas supplies to the Lifeco...

Amid rising Gulf geopolitical tensions, the US is further tightening sanctions on Iran’s critical petchems sector. NPC optimistically vows to carry on as usual, but a drop in exports and production looks inevitable.

US major ExxonMobil announced on 13 June that its Gulf Coast Growth Ventures joint venture with Saudi petchems giant...

Aramco’s trading arm is ramping up activity as the state firm seeks to max revenue. A Singapore office opened in 2017, and this week saw a Fujairah branch.

UK firm Ineos plans to build three specialty chemicals plants within the $9bn Amiral complex next to the 440,000 b/d Aramco/Total Satorp JV refinery.

Oman’s Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries Company (DRPIC), a JV of Oman state upstream firm OOC and Kuwait state...

New Gulf refineries and expansion projects plus a crude-to-chemicals project will complement crude exports as future revenue streams.

Saudi cut Q1 crude imports to the lowest level since 2017. And, despite increased pressure from US President Trump, it is so far showing no sign of letting up.

With collapsed crude exports following the end of US ‘waivers’ Tehran is desperate to get it’s hands on foreign currency by any available means.

After years in the doldrums Bahrain is now making progress with ambitious upstream and downstream projects.