مجلة النفط والتعاون العربي
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العدد
- 2017
أربعون
المجلد الثالث و ال
2016
أوابك العلمية لعام
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ص لبحوث العلمية الفائزة بجائزة
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عدد خا
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while production capacity is expected to be about 56.5 million tons indicating
large surplus capacity and low utilization of plants.
* Most collection and re-refining schemes need the support and subsidy of
governments or charges levied on lubricants consumers for the purpose. This is a
social cost to avoid impact on the environment and the loss of resources.
* Italy is an example of success and cooperation between the government and the
companies where in 1984 "The Compulsory Consortium of Used Oil (COOU)"
was established to foresee the collection, testing and allocation of used oil to re-
refiners. Financed by a levy on lubricants sale, the generators of used oils are
obliged to give the oil without charge.
* Information about the lubricating oil industry in the Arab World is hard to come
by. The expansion of the last few years is significant in adding capacity and
shifting from Group I base oils to Groups II and III.
* The region is of low oil drain interval around 2000 to 3000 kilometers though
this behavior is slowly changing. The virgin base oil production capacity in the
Arab countries will be more than three million tons a year by the end of 2016
while consumption is about 1.7 million tons. Re-refining is gaining ground at
slow pace where some operators strictly do filtration to remove insoluble and
export the products to less demanding markets. Uncontrolled burning is also
reported.
* The existence of five plants in Saudi Arabia having a total capacity of 100
thousand tons a year is much lower than other reported capacities. The UAE re-
refining capacity at 200 to 250 thousand tons a yearis much higher than the
domestically generated used oil. In both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, major
lubricants manufacturers complain about the state of the re-refining industry with
the growing issue of counterfeiting.