Kuwait >> 2/14/2012 - The total value of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) projects are expected to hit USD 40 billion by 2018, KNPC's Deputy Managing Director for Planning and Local Marketing Bakhit Shabib Al-R... |
Algeria >> 2/9/2012 - Algeria's 335,000 barrel per day Skikda refinery will partially shut down in early May for improvement works, the chief executive of state oil firm Sonatrach said. Abdelhamid Zerguine did not say how ... |
Russia >> 2/8/2012 - In 2011 Omsk Refinery increased its production output by over 5% as compared to the results of 2010, reaching 19.95 mln. tons. The processing depth in 2011 totaled 84.05% which is one of the best resu... |
Chad >> 2/6/2012 - The government of Chad said that operation at its 20,000 bpd refinery have restarted after it reached an agreement with its Chinese partner China National Petroleum Corp to settle a price dispute whic... |
Egypt >> 1/27/2012 - Citadel Capital SAE (CCAP), the Egyptian private equity firm that has raised $3.7 billion to build an oil refinery, plans to start construction in the second quarter. The refinery will have a capacity... |
Chad >> 1/24/2012 - Chad has suspended an oil refinery agreement with partner China National Petroleum Corp. and will set up a committee to renegotiate the accord, a government minister told Reuters. ... |
Russia >> 1/12/2012 - Modernisation of Omsk Oil Refinery's diesel fuel hydrotreatment unit has seen the introduction of a deparaffination process, which allows the processing of summer diesel fuel into winter diesel fuel. ... |
Kuwait >> 12/19/2011 - The partial closure of Al-Ahmadi refinery that is due in January is routinely and scheduled, and would have no effect on oil exports nor shipping, KNPC announced. The Director of public relations at K... |
Oman >> 12/4/2011 - Orpic announced three additional units to be included in the proposed Sohar Refinery Expansion Project. The new expansion supported by the Government of Oman is expected to improve the Sohar refinery'... |
Russia >> 11/16/2011 - Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Viktor Zubkov, First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, participated in a festive ceremony today dedicated to the completion of con... |
Bahrain >> 10/23/2011 - Bahrain will seek more oil and gas offshore as it plans to increase its refinining capacity by 2018, the country’s Energy Minister Abdul Hussain Ali Mirza said at energy and petrochemicals conference ... |
Iran >> 10/17/2011 - Abadan oil refinery’s upgrading plan will come online in next three years, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Company (NIORDC), Alireza Zeighami said. ... |
Japan >> 10/11/2011 - Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) Farouk Al-Zanki signed a long-term crude oil supplying contract with the Japanese Fuji Refinery. In a statement sent to KUNA, the state-ru... |
Kuwait >> 10/1/2011 - An accident at a gas unit at Ahmadi refinery resulted in the death of four laborers and the injury of two employees, announced KNPC. The accident came about as routine maintenance work was being carri... |
Russia >> 9/16/2011 - Vagit Alekperov, President of OAO LUKOIL, and Anatoly Brovko, Head of the Volgograd Region Administration, signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement aimed at implementation of large-scale investme... |
China >> 8/11/2011 - A Kuwaiti-Chinese oil complex to be built in Zhanjiang in south China costs a total of USD nine billion, China's ambassador in Kuwait said. ... |
Oman >> 8/9/2011 - UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries (Orpic) has selected UOP/Foster Wheeler technology to help process heavy oil and expand fuel and petrochemical... |
United States >> 7/11/2011 - NexLube Tampa LLC plans to begin construction of a used oil re-refinery and blending plant in Tampa, Florida using Axens’ and Viscolube Revivoil™ technology. The facility is expected to process 24 mil... |
Chad >> 7/1/2011 - On June 29, N'djamena refinery, Chad's first, was completed and went on stream, marking the full operation of the first phase of CNPC's 1Mt/a upstream and downstream integrated project, and the realiz... |
Kuwait >> 6/29/2011 - Fahad Al-Ajmi, new board chairman and managing director of Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), asserted here Wednesday importance the two new projects of the new refinery and biofuel, noting tha... |