Refining & Petrochemicals

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.

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.

*Egypt’s crude production averaged 630,000 b/d in Q1 2019 versus average refinery intake of 500,000 b/d. But the country’s...

Saudi petchems firms Sipchem and Sahara Petrochemical have completed a “mergers of equals” to create a new company Sahara...

Shell has signed up for a gas-to-liquids scheme as part of an Oman investment mega-deal. But the numbers suggest a renaissance for the technology won’t be easy.

Fujairah-based storage terminal operator Brooge Petroleum has announced a plan to build a 250,000 b/d “refinery” near the port...

Egypt’s Qalaa Holdings, lead investor in the delayed 4.28mn t/y (81,500 b/d) Egypt Refining Company (ERC) hydrocracker at Musturud,...

Adnoc has ambitious plans to boost its oil and gas production capacity. With the firm looking to end the...