- NIGERIA - Privatisation of The Oil Refining
Sector.
With Nigeria's four state-owned refineries to be privatised, plans for several private oil refining projects are being developed. The federal government of Abuja has issued 18 private refinery licences after opening up the country's downstream sector to local and foreign investors. In October 2002, President Obasanjo laid the foundation stone ......
- TURKMENISTAN - The Turkmenbashi
Refinery.
Located on the Caspian coast in western Turkmenistan, this refinery has a capacity of 116,500 b/d. In February 1996 Merhav Corp. of Israel signed a $500m contract to upgrade this plant. It arranged financing from Japanese, German, French and Turkish export credit agencies. The project was to involve building a ......
- Saudi Aramco Buys Into Chinese Refining.
The China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), the country's largest oil refiner, plans to sell a 25% stake in an east Chinese refinery to Saudi Aramco. Sinopec and the municipal government of the port city of Qingdao have reached a preliminary deal with Saudi Aramco over the sale. The Qingdao ......
- Shaw Awarded Refinery Expansion Contract by Marathon Petroleum.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) today announced that its Shaw Stone & Webster business unit has been awarded an engineering and procurement contract by Marathon Petroleum Company LLC, a subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO), for a 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) heavy gas ......
- EGYPT - The Egyptian Oil RefiningSector.
The oil refining sector in Egypt looks set for big expansion, with at least four new projects being promoted. One is a 500,000 b/d grassroots refinery to be built near the Suez Canal, an outlet used by tankers carrying crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Europe. The second is ......
- SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia's Oil Refining Sector
Is Upgraded, But Expansions Face Rising Costs.
Most of state-owned Saudi Aramco's seven oil refineries in the kingdom have been upgraded to produce premium fuels. Some of them are being upgraded further and expanded through integrated mega-projects involving massive petrochemical plants in JV with international oil companies (IOCs) or major producers of plastics such as Dow ......
- RUSSIA - LUKoil Structure.
LUKoil was first structured in 1992 and its name derived from three production associations in west Siberia that were merged: LangepasNefteGaz (then with the capacity of 275,000 b/d); UraiNefteGaz (87,000 b/d); and KogalymNefteGaz (475,000 b/d). In Sept. 1995 LUKoil took from Rosneft four producers which had agreed to merge with ......