Basrah Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: South Refineries Company
• Website: http://www.src.gov.iq/english/index.html
• Location: Basra, Iraq
• Capacity: 7.0 million tons/annum & 140,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:

Refining Units

• Two units for hydrogenation of light distiller capacity of each unit (29000) barrels / day.
• Two units to improve their respective gasoline, capacity (8000) barrels / day.
• Two units for the production of liquid gas, capacity of each unit (200) tons / day.
• Unit for hydrogenation oil gas with capacity (12000) barrels / day.
• Four small units of mobile refining capacity each (10000) barrels / day and begun work in February 1997 and was completed in September 1997.
• liquidator fats established in 1982 and began production in 1996, amounting to energy productivity (100.000) tons / year and consists of vacuum distillation unit, a unit for removing the asphalt, furfural treatment unit, and wax removing unit, hydrogenation fat unit, mixing and packaging unit, and the unit of Hydrogenation and pouring wax.

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

- === Products Produced

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Projects

• For Details see Basrah Refinery Upgrading Project
• The refinery is being upgraded with the addition of an FCC
• Other Information

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History

• 1986 - Vacuum, lube and Solvent Units added
• 2011 - Shaw awarded a Feasibility Study for the Rehabilitation of the Refinery

Links

1. Saipem Wax Units
2. Saipem Lube Oil Units
3. Saipem Solvent Production Units
4. Saipem Vacuum Distillation Units
5. Prokop Engineering Refinery References
6. Shaw to Conduct Feasibility Study to Rehabilitate Refinery in Iraq
7. JGC Receives Order for Refinery Upgrading Project in Iraq