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Bapco to award Bahrain Refinery FEED and PMC The national oil company (NOC) Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) is currently evaluating the technical and commercial offers submitted by the engineering companies for the front end engineering and design (FEED) and the project management consultancy (PMC) contracts related to the brownfield Sitra Refinery Expansion project in Bahrain. […]
Kuwait Key Projects and Business Highlights Kuwait holds the sixth largest reserves of conventional crude oil and rank among the top 10 producing countries in the world attracting all the engineering and services companies such as Bechtel, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Fluor, Foster Wheeler, WorleyParsons, Daelim Industrial. Until 2008, the crude oil production in Kuwait was regularly increasing […]
Daelim in the lead for KNPC Mina Al-Ahmadi FCC EPC Daelim Industrial from South Korea submitted the lowest bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the Fluid Catalytic Convertor (FCC) and Sour Water Treatment package of the Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) refinery at Mina Al-Ahmadi in Kuwait. With this first package to be […]
Definition Mild Hydrocracking or MHC is referring to the refining process designed to performs a partial hydrocracking only. In the mild hydrocracking only about 20-60% at ~ 50-85 bar of the feedstock crude oil is cracked. Comments The objective of the Mild Hydrocracking process is to convert 20-60% of the vacuum gas oil at 343°C to […]
Sitra Refinery expansion preliminary studies completed After multiple scenarios for revamping and expansion, the Minister of Energy in Bahrain, Dr. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza, has announced the completion of the preliminary studies to modernize the Sitra refinery. The plan of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) aims to increase energy efficiency and increase production of high value […]