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... |
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, ... |
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... |
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... |
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... |