Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla, stressed the importance of continued development and modernization of the refining system to improve performance efficiency and reduce waste.

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla, has inspected the workflow at Middle East Oil Refinery Company (Midor) and the Middle East Oil Tankage & Pipelines Company (MIDTAP) platform in Deikheila Port in Alexandria.

The Egyptian petroleum sector is, currently, implementing five major projects worth $14 billion including expansion of Midor refinery in Alexandria, Red Sea petrochemical project in the economic zone in Suez Canal, Assiut National Oil Processing (ANOPC) diesel complex in Assiut, asphalt production unit in Suez and coking complex.

Shell Oil Company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, agreed to sale its interest in Deer Park refinery to partner Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) for about $596 million, according to Shell's press release.

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, along with the Minister of Oil, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, have put the cornerstone of South Refineries company’ FFC project in Al Basra at a capacity of 55,000 barrels per day (b/d) of oil.

Roseneft company announced that its Komsomolsk refinery invested more than RUB 750 million in environment- oriented assets during the period between 2018 to 2020.

The state owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has completed negotiations to take a lone from the Afreximbank of $1 billion for repairing its Port Harcourt refinery during the Q1 2021.

The Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has inaugurated the recent Propylene Derivatives Petrochemicals (PDPP) Complex at Kochi refinery in kerala governorate, built at a cost of ₹6,000 crore.

The Iraqi oil Ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for establishing a refinery in Dhi Qar governorate in order to raise the production capacity rates of petroleum products and fuels as well as improve the output.

The Fujairah Port will get a fourth refinery in 2021 as Brooge Energy expects its 25,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) refinery producing low sulfur fuel oil to be launched in H2 2021.