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Iraq picks 7 firms to bid for Nasiriya oil projectIraq has selected seven international oil companies (IOCs) to bid to develop its Nassiriya oilfield and build a refinery as part of plans to expand the country's downstream operations, the oil ministry said. Fourteen companies More… |
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Protesters shut down W Libya's main oil refineryWounded soldiers protested outside western Libya's main oil refinery on Thursday, closing operations for a second time this month, a company spokesman said, and raising fears of a petrol shortage in the war-battered country. A More… |
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Citadel eyes Uganda oil refinery projectEgypt's Citadel Capital could be an investor in Uganda's proposed $2.5 billion oil refinery project, the Egyptian private equity firm's managing director said. Uganda, east Africa's third-largest economy, has said More… |
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19 killed in Venezuela refinery blastA gas leak caused an explosion that killed at least 19 people at Venezuela's biggest oil refinery on Saturday and wounded more than 50 in the Opec nation's worst industrial accident in recent memory. The deadly blast follows a s More… |
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Bapco picks GE MBR systemBahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has chosen GE to design and supply a Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) system for its oil refinery wastewater treatment plant in Sitra. The project and the GE-supplied advanced water treatment technology will supp More… |
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Oman to up Sohar Refinery capacityOman plans to boost capacity at its Sohar refinery by up to 50 percent by 2016 to satisfy its own rapidly rising fuel demand, the chief executive of Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) said. Oman could spend up to More… |
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India 'has back-up plan to replace Iran oil'India is ready with a back up plan to cope with a halt to supplies of crude from Iran, its oil minister S Jaipal Reddy said on Thursday, adding there will not be any oil shortages due to Iran halting supplies in August. "No. There will not More… |
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Kuwait approves $29 billion oil projectsKuwait's Supreme Petroleum Council approved the construction of a new 615,000 barrels per day state-of-the-art refinery late on Monday, the oil minister said. 'We hope that the regulatory procedures and approvals are clear wi More… |
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Kuwait may build Indonesia refinery in 2012State-owned Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) may start building a refinery project in Indonesia next year, its chairman said in remarks published on Tuesday. Hussein Ismail told local daily Annahar the project would cost between $8 bil More… |
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Saudi Aramco denies German refinery dealState oil giant Saudi Aramco denied it was involved in a deal to buy a crude oil refinery in Germany owned by US oil firm ConocoPhillips. 'There is no factual basis to the claim of Saudi Aramco involvement,' the company was quoted More… |
