DMEA - Downstream Middle East & Africa

Mozambique LNG project may be back on track soon

Total’s CEO says work may resume on the Mozambique LNG project by the end of March, pointing to his company’s security agreement with the Mozambican government and insisting production will begin in 2024.

Deal nears for gas supply to Gaza

Firms face pressure to move regional HQs to Saudi

DMEA: Qatar bucks trend with $29bn LNG expansion

Dangote Group delays opening of refinery

Nigeria’s Dangote Group has pushed the target date for opening its new 650,000 barrel per day oil refinery back from the fourth quarter of 2021 to early 2022.

BUA Group sees Akwa Ibom refinery finished in 2024

Nigeria’s BUA Group has revealed that it expects to complete a refinery construction project in Akwa Ibom State in 2024.

Egyptian petrochemicals producer SIDPEC selects Honeywell solution to upgrade production capabilities

Uganda launches local content and training initiative for EACOP

The Ugandan government has teamed up with the Albertine Graben Oil and Gas Districts Association (AGODA) to establish a local content and training initiative.

Istanbul listed refiner Tupras posts first annual loss in two decades

Dozens injured after ‘gas tanker explosion by Iran-Afghanistan border causes hundreds of vehicles to burst into flames’

Iraq in talks to build crude storage in China, Pakistan

Petrostates to lose trillions of dollars in revenues amid clean energy push: report

New “wake-up call” analysis from Carbon Tracker looks at impact of shift towards lower-carbon energy.

TPAO seeks partners for Black Sea gas field

Turkey’s Sasa signs engineering agreement with Tecnicas Reunidas for $935mn investment

Turkish energy companies Naturelgaz, Petrol Ofisi sign cooperation deal

Sub-Saharan Africa could yield extra 74mn tpy of LNG supply: ACTING

Qatar greenlights $29bn LNG expansion plan

Iran's petrochemical output ‘to reach 100mn tonnes by 2022’

Net profit at Turkish specialty polymers maker Sasa hit by cost of sales