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Article: SYRIA - The Noor Project.
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- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- March 17, 2008
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Noor in early 2007 had announced that its 140,000 b/d refinery plan was to be part of a project to include a network of gasoline retail stations. It said the refinery was to be built in Abu Khashab, north-east of the city of Deir-ez-Zor, over an area of 400 hectares. It then estimated its project to cost over $1.5 bn and to take up to four years to complete.
Noor said the SPC was to supply the refinery with both light and heavy crude oils. The refinery was to create around 1,500 job opportunities. The first memorandum of understanding (MoU) for this project was signed with the Oil and Mineral Resources Ministry in December 2006.
The second MoU was ...