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Saudi Arabia, Pakistan in Talks Over Oil Refinery Project
Saudi Arabia proposed a multi-billion dollar oil refinery in the Pakistani port city of Gwadar during high-level diplomatic talks between a Saudi delegation and Pakistani authorities, Arab News reported. “The Saudi de...
Iraq to Establish Oil Refinery in Kirkuk
Iraq’s oil ministry has authorized the establishment of a $5b oil refinery project in Kurdistan’s Kirkuk. The ministry’s Spokesman, Asim Jihad, told Rudaw Media Network that “the oil ministry has given app...
Eni to Construct New Crude Oil Refinery in Nigeria
The Nigerian Oil Minister, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, announced that the Italian oil company Eni is planning to construct a crude refinery in Nigeria through its Agip subsidiary, Reuters reported. Kachikwu announced the p...
Uganda Shortlists Four Companies for Oil Refinery Project
Uganda’s Energy Minister, Irene Muloni, stated late April that the country shortlisted four companies from which it intends to select the bid winner to construct Uganda’s $4.27b oil refinery project, All A...
Bahrain’s Bapco in Talks on Sitra Expansion Bids
Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has started two weeks of negotiations with international contractors to clarify bids to expand the Sitra oil refinery, estimated to cost around $5b. Under the Bapco Modernization Prog...
Ghana’s Tema Refinery Shut Down after Explosion
Ghana’s Tema Oil Refinery, the only refinery in the country, has shut down after an explosion at a newly installed $6.21m crude oil heating unit, Reuters reported. The explosion at the Crude Distillation Unit (C...
Russia Set Terms for Uganda’s Oil Refinery
Russia has set new terms for its involvement in building Uganda’s $4b oil refinery in Hoima, western Uganda, a project it abandoned in June 2016, All Africa informed. The Ugandan refinery had been estimated to b...
Sinopec Showed Interest in Uganda’s Refinery
Oil firms, including China’s China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), have expressed an interest in developing Uganda’s planned oil refinery. Uganda’s Energy and Mineral Development Mini...
