Subject: New Refinery Projects For Dec. ‘05
New refinery projects are reported monthly to Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/water.html#n006 subscribers. Here are the project titles for the month of December:
REFINERY UPDATE
December 2005
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
1. AMERICAS
U.S.
First Steps Taken to Restart BP Texas City Refinery
$1 Billion Expansion of Conoco-Phillips Refinery in Roxana
Connacher Oil and Gas Limited Hints at Buying Montana Refining Co
ConocoPhillips Wood River Refinery to get $1 Bln New Coking Unit
Tribal Officials Says Makoti 15,000b/d Refinery Plans Being Held Up by Environmental Impact Statement Reviews
BP to Invest $1 billion in Texas City Refinery Following Explosion
Boom in Overseas Refinery Projects Puts U.S. Behind
Murphy Oil Wants County Land for Buffer, Possible Expansion for Superior Refinery
CENTRAL AMERICA
Regional Leaders to Approve Mexican Plan to Build 300,000b/d Central American Oil Refinery
BRAZIL
The 200,000 bpd, $2.5 Bln Joint Project Pernambuco Refinery to be Online by 2011
COLOMBIA
Ecopetrol Launches Tender for Cartagena Refinery Expansion to Increase Processing Capacity to 140,000b/d
2. ASIA
CHINA
Kuwait, China Sign Deal on $5 Billion Oil Refinery Project in Guangdong
PetroChina, Sinopec Planning Guangxi Oil Refineries of 8 and 10 Mln Tons Capacity
Chinese Partner for Sino-Kuwait Refinery Project in Guangdong Province still Undecided
PetroChina Expands 100,000b/d Refinery for Russian Crude in Liaoyang City
Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery to Run at Record 365,00b/d in January
INDIA
IOC Commissions 4th Hydrocracker Unit at Panipat Refinery
PHILIPPINES
Aramco Eyes $5 Bln Refinery in Mindanao
SOUTH KOREA
SK Bid for Inchon Oil Refinery Approved
3. EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
PORTUGAL
$4.7 Bln, 250,000b/d Oil Refinery to be Built in Portugal by 2010
UNITED KINGDOM
ConocoPhillips Failures Led to April 2001 Refinery Blast
ANGOLA
Angola may Start Work on $3.75 bln, 200,000b/d Oil Refinery in 2006
KENYA
Mombasa Refinery Upgrade Design Awarded to Foster Wheeler
ZAMBIA
Zambia to Explore Possibility of Leasing Oil Refinery
RUSSIA
Russia’s Planned Pacific Coast Refinery Could Have Capacity of 400,000 b/d
Omsk Refinery Engineers Meet with Union Oil Products to Discuss Paraxylol Production Complex Reconstruction
ABU DHABI
Abu Dhabi Plans $3bn and up to 300,000b/d Oil Refinery in Fujairah
IRAQ
Iraqis Shutter 140,000b/d Refinery in Beiji after Threats of Attack
KUWAIT
Kuwait May Build 400,000b/d Oil Refinery in Louisiana to Boost U.S. Capacity
SYRIA
Syria Signs Memorandum with CNPC to Build $1.2bln, 140,000b/d Refinery in Deir ez-Zour
Russia to Build $2.7 Bln, Oil Refinery in Syria for 2010 Startup
UAE
Emirates National Oil Co. to spend $500 Mln to Upgrade Jebel Ali Refinery
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