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DMEA COMMENTARY DMEA

Operator Refinery Current Capacity (bpd) Capacity Addition (bpd) Total (bpd)
North Refineries Co. Salah al-Din (Baiji) 140,000 150,000 290,000
North Refineries Co. Siniya 20,000 10,000 30,000
North Refineries Co. Kirkuk 56,000 12,000 68,000
North Refineries Co. Kirkuk (New) 75,000 75,000
North Refineries Co. Kasak 10,000 10,000 20,000
North Refineries Co. Haditha 16,000 20,000 36,000
North Refineries Co. Haditha (New) 70,000 70,000
North Refineries Co. Qayarah 6,000 6,000
North Refineries Co. Qayarah (New) 70,000 70,000
North Refineries Co. Anbar (New) 150,000 150,000
Total NRC 248,000 567,000 815,000
Midland Refineries Co. Daura 140,000 140,000
Midland Refineries Co. Wasit 100,000 100,000
Midland Refineries Co. Karbala 140,000 140,000
Midland Refineries Co. Samawa 30,000 30,000
Midland Refineries Co. Samawa (New) 70,000 70,000
Midland Refineries Co. Najaf 30,000 30,000
Midland Refineries Co. Diwaniyah 10,000 10,000
Midland Refineries Co. Diwaniyah (New) 70,000 70,000
Total MRC 210,000 380,000 590,000
South Refineries Co. Shuaiba 210,000 70,000 280,000
South Refineries Co. Nassiriyah 30,000 30,000
South Refineries Co. Nassiriyah (New) 300,000 300,000
South Refineries Co. Missan 30,000 30,000
South Refineries Co. Missan (New) 150,000 150,000
Total SRC 270,000 520,000 790,000
Total 728,000 1,467,000 2,195,000

disclosed, and the companies were due to sub- Hussain said that all bottlenecks would be Iraq’s current and
mit their technical and financial scoping for the “addressed” during the current year, noting that planned refining
development in December. NRC has begun implementation of overhaul projects.
Bids were previously invited in 2018 for the works “according to the established plan” and
development of a 100,000 bpd facility in the city its “available financial allocations”, targeting a Data provided by IGM
around 80 km south of Mosul, though follow- return to “basic design capabilities in the near Energy
ing an extension to the deadline because of weak future”.
interest the scheme faded into obscurity. Iraq has a history of announcing ambitious
The existing refinery was built with an origi- refining plans only for these to disappear from
nal two units in 1953 and was later expanded to public view soon after.
four, taking the theoretical throughput capacity In 2007, Baghdad launched a downstream
to 20,000 bpd, but only its units 3 and 4 are cur- development programme comprising four new
rently operational giving a capacity of just 6,000 plants across the country – at Wasit (100,000
bpd having been offline for much of 2021. bpd), Karbala (140,000 bpd), Samawa (70,000
bpd) and Diwaniyah (70,000 bpd), though only
Timeline Karbala has made any tangible progress.
Hussain said that NRC has “set a timetable for Of these, only Karbala has reached the con-
the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the struction phase following the Ministry of Oil’s
company’s refineries and dividing the business reversion to an engineering, procurement and
process into five basic stages due to the major construction (EPC) contract and its award to
damages to the refinery and its infrastructure”, the Korean consortium in 2014.
noting that the first three stages have been com- Last month, the facility’s director said that
pleted as well as the overhaul of the refining units commissioning would begin on schedule in
now operational. September, opening with a capacity of 70,000
He said that the obstacles that “prevent the bpd of light and medium crude before ramping
return of production lines to their full capacities up to its full 140,000 bpd capacity during 2023.
are related to determining the company’s share of While optimism can be taken from the progress
crude oil” as well as ongoing maintenance work at Karbala and the contract awards for the north-
on liquefiers. ern Qayarah and Haditha refineries, it is unlikely
While not giving a target completion date, that all of these projects will reach fruition. ™

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