Liberia opened a new heavy fuel oil (HFO) storage plant in mid-August to provide additional flexibility for the country’s fuel oil-fired power generation plants.
Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) confirmed plans in late July to establish a trading business. The move follows a trend set by its less conservative regional peers to venture into the sector and their...
Saudi Aramco has said that the first phase of an expansion of the main cross-country gas pipeline, the Master Gas System (MGS), will be complete by the end of 2017.
The overseas refining and petrochemical arms of state energy conglomerate Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) in mid-July both signalled plans for a new push towards international expansion.
Major project agreements were signed in early July by the various subsidiaries of state-owned energy investment vehicle Oman Oil Co. (OOC) involved in the long-awaited scheme to develop a large...
The scale of the damage inflicted on Abu Dhabi’s main refinery at Ruwais by a fire in January was revealed in June with the award of a contract to repair the damaged facilities.
Qatar, which lifted the moratorium on work in its giant North Field in April, has set out plans to increase LNG production to 100 million tpy from the current level of 77 million tpy. The...
Saudi Arabia’s concerted expansion downstream in Asia was again evident in early June in initiatives by the state’s two corporate titans.
Abuja remains in the process of shortlisting potential bidders for contracts to finance and implement the rehabilitation of the three dilapidated and under performing state-owned refineries....
State-owned Saudi Aramco is assessing bids for the main contracts on the long-delayed upgrade of the company’s largest domestic refinery at Ras Tanura on the Gulf coast. It has...
Local privately-owned Jubail-based petrochemicals producers Sahara Petrochemicals Co. and Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (Sipchem) both made progress with their respective business...
Kuwait’s plans to create a new downstream hub at the southern port of Al-Zour assumed firmer form in late March, with the contract signed for the construction of an LNG import terminal. The...
Sudan and South Sudan have agreed in principle a new oil pipeline deal, which takes into account the plunge in crude oil prices, the countries’ oil ministers said last week. Fixed transit fees...
The Cotonou Fuels Plant is a fuels storage depot presently under construction in the coastal city of Cotonou in Benin.
Backers to the new plant, which will have capacity of 45,000 cubic...
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