Iraq intends to deliver the capacity of the northern refineries to 600,000 barrels per day


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Economy News – Baghdad

The North Refineries Company of the Ministry of Oil announced today, Wednesday, the total refining capacity of the North Refineries, while noting the continued development of refineries and upgrading them to the ranks of international companies.

The director of the project management department at the company, Atta Aliwi Hussein Al-Hamdani, said: “The North Refineries Company is witnessing a great renaissance and development that will make it in the ranks of major liquidation companies in the Middle East, where the cadres of the Project Management Department, the Maintenance Authority and the supporting company’s departments began to establish Refining Unit 3 at Salah Al-Din Refinery to be the nucleus of Salah Al-Din 3 Refinery 3, which will be added to the company’s refinery complex and a capacity of 70 thousand barrels per day,” noting that “a new refining energy will be added to the current basic refining energies in the company.”

Al-Hamdani added, “Salah Al-Din 1 refinery will reach its refining capacity to 70 thousand barrels per day, and Salah Al-Din 2 refinery with a refining capacity of 70,000 barrels per day, while the North strainery will be with a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day, and the small refining units 2 and 3 in the North Refinery with a capacity of 20,000 barrels per day. It is hoped that these units will enter into operation this year, and Salah Al-Din Safinery 3 will be with a capacity of 70 thousand barrels per day and it is hoped that the refining unit will be completed within one year, and thus the total capacity of the Al-Samud refinery complex during the next year will be approximately 380,000 barrels per day.”

He continued: “As for the external refineries of the company, the project management department, under the guidance of the General Manager of the North Refineries Company, continues to implement the company’s plan to raise refining capacities during the current and next years.”

He explained that “the current capacity of the Kirkuk strainer is 56 thousand barrels and after completing the concentration unit 109 will be 76 thousand barrels per day, while the current capacity of the Chinese refinery will be 30,000 barrels per day and after completing the two new units, the refining capacity will be 50 thousand barrels per day, and the current energy of a modern refinery reaches 16 thousand barrels. After completing the two new units, the refining capacity will be 36 thousand barrels per day, and the Keskury with a current capacity of 20 thousand barrels per day and after completing the new unit, the refinery capacity will be 30 thousand barrels per day, while the Qayah refinery, the available refinery is approximately 12,000 barrels per day and after completing the new unit, the energy will be the energy The refinery is 32 thousand barrels per day,” pointing out that “the refining capacity of the current and added external refineries will be 204 thousand barrels per day.”

He pointed out that “the total refining capacity of the current and added North Refineries Company will be 584 thousand barrels per day, which is an unprecedented refining energy in the field of the liquidation sector, with the addition of complementary units such as hydrogenation units, gaseh, gasoline improvement units, energy units, technical services, pumping and storage units, industrial water transactions and others with projects to modernize units, infrastructure, residential complexes, units and investment refineries.”

He pointed out that “the North Refineries Company also began preparing the requirements for the establishment of a FCC unit, which is a unit consisting of four basic units to maximize the production of improved gasoline material and middle distillers. This unit works on the material of fuel oil or the remaining black oil in the refinery tower produced from the company’s refineries,” pointing out that we seek to implement all plans and programs for raising refining capacities, modernizing and developing the company’s refineries and upgrading them to the ranks of major international companies in the liquidation sector in Iraq and the Middle East.


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