The Oil Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan has inaugurated Indian first remote monitoring system center for tracking oil refineries’ turbines in Hyderabad.

Sidi Rezine has restarted its operations and increased its annual output to reach 3.645 million tons, up from 2.7 million tons.

SATORP will schedule maintenance on train 2 units at its oil refinery in Saudi Arabia.

Sonatrach signed a deal with a consortium of Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas and South Korea’s Samsung Engineering to build a new oil refinery in the western Ouargla Province.

The refinery will have a production capacity of around 150,000 b/d.

Constructing the refinery is expected to begin on March 24 and take 44 months to be completed.

The modernization project represents the needed value added to the oil ministry as it paves the way to increase the ministry’s contributions to the national development.

Saudi Arabia's plan comes as part of the $10 billion investments to be in the Kingdom.

The refinery is set to be established in Pakistan's deepwater port of Gwadar.

Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) plans to establish a new oil refinery in South of Kuwait.