Refineries UPDATE
November 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
AMERICAS
U.S.
PBF Announces Restart of Delaware City Refinery after $450 Mln in Upgrades
NPRA Announces Name Change for January 2012
Calumet Completes Acquisition of Superior Refinery and Boosts Throughput Capacity by 50 Percent
Technip Wins ExxonMobil Contract to Build Base Oil Plant at Baytown Complex
Valero Plans Overhauls at Refineries in L.A., Houston, Louisiana and Tennessee
PBF’s Delaware Refinery Leak Causing Chemical Emissions Fixed
CANADA
Fluor Wins Alberta’s Redwater Bitumen Refinery FEED Contract
CUBA / NICARAGUA
Ramirez Confirms Petrocaribe's 150,000 bpd Refinery Plans
MEXICO
Mexico's Pemex Plans Salamanca Refinery Upgrade in 2012
BRAZIL
China Development Bank Backs PdVSA Loan for $15 Bln Abreu e Lima Refinery
ASIA
INDIA
Essar Energy Completes Vadinar Shutdown to Begin $1.85 Bln Upgrade and Expansion
SINGAPORE
Order Flows to Contractors Expected from Blaze at Shell’s Bukom Refinery
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
BOSNIA
Bosnia Refinery Phase 1 Reconstruction Ends
FINLAND
Metso to Supply Automation, Safety Systems for Finland’s Neste Refineries
FRANCE
Petroplus will Include Shutdown to Reconfigure Petit Couronne Refinery
FRANCE / BELGIUM
Total Will Realign Downstream and Chemicals Operations
TURKEY
SOCAR to Lay Foundation of Turkey’s Petkim Oil Refinery with Expected Costs of $4.5-$5 Bln
SOUTH AFRICA
Sapref Plans Restart of Durban Refinery Gasoline Unit by November 6
UGANDA
Uganda Hopes Estimated $4.62 Bln Hoima Refinery will End East African Downstream Monopoly
RUSSIA
Bashneft to Invest $1.2 Bln in Refining and Petrochemicals
KAZAKSTAN
Kazakhstan to Begin Construction of Three Mini Oil Refineries by 2012
MIDDLE EAST
Gulf States Plan $250 Bln in Downstream Oil Sector Projects
IRAQ
Axens to Supply Process Tech for New Iraq Refinery
KUWAIT
Kuwait-Sino $9 Bln Petrochemical Complex Contract Signing Projected to 2012
OMAN
Oman Could Spend up to $1.5 Bln to Increase Sohar Refinery Capacity
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Aramco Will Raise Domestic Refining Output Capacity with New Start-up Plants
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Abu Dhabi's IPIC May Spend $6.5 Bln on New Oman, UAE Refineries