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Figure 8.1<br />

Figure 8.1<br />

Cost of refinery projects by region, 2012–2016<br />

cost of projects in billion $ (2011)<br />

60<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

0<br />

0<br />

Cost of all projects<br />

US &<br />

Canada<br />

billion US$(2011)<br />

Latin<br />

America<br />

Africa Europe FSU Middle<br />

East<br />

China Other<br />

Asia<br />

the range of 10% for 2011, while the increase in the Nelson-Farrar index is slightly<br />

below 5% for the same year.<br />

100 The trend of rising costs is expected to continue, though not at the rates witnessed<br />

in the pre-crisis Direct investments years 2017–2035 and during the recovery period of 2010 and 2011. The<br />

Investment requirements above projects to 2016<br />

assumption employed in the projections is that investment costs will increase during<br />

80<br />

the forecast period, although at moderate levels.<br />

60The<br />

second category of downstream investments comprises capacity additions –<br />

over and above known projects – that are projected to be required to provide adequate<br />

future refining capacity. These are presented in Figure 8.2. At the global level, these<br />

investments 40 are estimated to total around $300 billion in the period to 2035. This<br />

amount is very similar to the WOO 2011 estimate, although current global distillation<br />

capacity additions are some 2 mb/d lower than last year’s projection. Higher con-<br />

20<br />

struction costs and a somewhat higher proportion of secondary process units, broadly<br />

compensate for lesser distillation additions in the make-up of total investments.<br />

Extending US & the Latin time horizon Africa to Europe 2035 amplifies FSU Middle the significance China of Other the Asia-Pacif-<br />

Canada America<br />

East<br />

Asia<br />

ic. The region should attract the highest portion of future downstream investments,<br />

driven by the region’s strong demand growth. From the $300 billion of required investments<br />

above existing projects, almost 45%, or $130 billion, is projected to be in<br />

the Asia-Pacific. While in the medium-term China attracts more investments than

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