The Sultanate’s $6.7 billion petrochemical project at Sohar Port is nearing its launch.

Saudi Arabia’s ethane production gas now reached 900 million standard cubic feet per day (mscf/d), while current local demand stands at 940 mscf/d, according to Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman.

The American natural gas and crude oil pipeline company, Enterprise Products Partners L.P., has announced plans to construct a new cryogenic natural gas processing facility, along with the natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline infrastructure needed to facilitate the growth of NGL-rich natural gas production in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East's largest private sector natural gas company, announces that its joint-venture, the Egyptian Bahrain Gas Derivatives Company (EBGDCo) NGL extraction plant region at Ras Shukheir in Egypt, first of its kind in the Gulf of Suez region, has loaded its first propane cargo on 1 October, 2012.