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  • IS seizes parts of Iraq’s largest oil refinery

    KIRKUK: Jihadists from the self-styled Islamic State group broke into Iraq’s massive Baiji oil refinery, seized some of its facilities and are hiding among fuel storage tanks, officials said on Wednesday...

    IS has attempted repeatedly over the past 10 months to capture the refinery — the country’s largest — but security forces have managed to fight them off...

  • Sri Lanka in talks with two Chinese firms for $3bn refinery

    COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is in talks with two Chinese companies about investing up to $3 billion to build in a new refinery at its Chinese-controlled port, a top government official said on Friday...

    Sri Lanka wants to build a new refinery in its southern Hambantota port, where China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPH) has a 99-year lease to handle commercial operations...

  • Refinery hopes for good deal on Iranian oil

    Asad Siddiqui, the chief financial officer of Byco Refinery, told a news conference that refineries in Pakistan would have no specification problems in refining Iranian crude...

    He said Byco Refinery with largest installed refining capacity in the country was poised to take advantage of expected Iranian discounts unlike the country’s other refineries which had long-term crude supply contracts...

  • Iraqi troops recapture key parts of refinery town from IS

    BAGHDAD: Iraqi troops backed by Shia militias recaptured key parts of the northern refinery town of Beiji from the self-styled Islamic State on Sunday, a general said...

    There was no word on the fate of the contested refinery on the town’s outskirts, but Maan said the capture of Beiji would help Iraqi forces to better secure the nearby Beiji refinery — Iraq’s largest oil refining facility and key to the country’s domestic supplies... ...

  • Oldest refinery in midst of upgradation

    Attock Refinery was incorporated on Nov 8, 1978 and came to be listed on the stock exchanges on June 26, 1979...

    ARL is a member of the Attock Group of Companies which also has under its fold four other listed companies: Pakistan Oilfields, National Refinery, Attock Petroleum and Attock Cement...

  • Xi opens refinery with Saudi king

    RIYADH: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi King Salman on Wednesday attended a ceremony to mark the opening of a joint-venture refinery, a symbol of Beijing’s deepening involvement in the Middle East...

    The YASREF refinery, in Yanbu Industrial City on the Red Sea, is 62...

  • Aden oil refinery ablaze as Yemen rebels shell port

    ADEN: Fire erupted at Aden’s oil refinery on Saturday when rebels shelled the nearby port to prevent a Qatari ship carrying aid for Yemen’s devastated second city from docking, officials said...

    “The rebels fired artillery rounds at the area and one hit an oil tank at the refinery, sparking a fire,” said an official at the Aden Refinery Company...

  • ‘Oil refinery right of Karak people’

    KARAK: Adviser to the chief minister on prisons Malik Qasim Khan Khattak has claimed that oil refinery would be established in Karak as the district produced 75 per cent of oil and gas in the Kohat division...

    The adviser said the oil refinery would also provide employment opportunities to the local educated youths...

  • Parco to build Pakistan's ‘biggest oil refinery’ in Hub

    ISLAMABAD: The Pak-Arab Oil Refinery (Parco) will begin building Pakistan's biggest oil refinery in Balochistan's Hub area, Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi confirmed to DawnNews...

    The $5 billion Khalifa Coastal Oil Refinery, which will have a production capacity of 250,000 barrels per day, is expected to be completed within five years, Abbasi said...

  • Punjab investment board signs MoU for $5bn oil refinery

    LAHORE: The Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with Grace Refinery, an international petrochemicals company, for establishing an oil refinery with $5 billion investment near Kot Addu...

    PBIT CEO Amena Cheema and Grace Refinery CEO Uzma Bashir signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organisations at the PBIT head-office...

  • Oil refinery to be set up in place of Gadani coal power project

    QUETTA: The federal government has decided to establish a new oil refinery on the land allotted for the 6,600-megawatt coal-based Gadani Power Park Project...

    According to Prime Minister’s Office directives available with Dawn, the premier has directed that the land earlier earmarked for the power project be allotted to Pakistan Arab Refinery Company (Parco) for building up the Khalifa Coastal Refinery (KCR)...

  • Modi launches $6.8bn refinery in Rajasthan

    8 billion refinery in the western state of Rajasthan, in the hopes of meeting the rising fuel demand...

    The 180,000-barrel-per-day refinery and petrochemical project is being built by the country’s third-biggest state refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) in a tie-up with the state government...

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