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Iraq signs off deal for

Haditha refinery expansion

MIDDLE EAST THE Iraqi Cabinet this week gave approval for in 2018.
the signature of a contract between the state- The push to expand the refinery comes as the
owned North Refineries Co. (NRC) and US Iraqi government appears to be closing in on a
firm Honeywell UOP entailing the upgrade and mega-pipeline project that was originally sched-
expansion of a refinery in Anbar Governorate. uled to run past Haditha, connecting the coun-
The existing Haditha refinery has a current try’s southern fields with Jordan’s Red Sea coast,
nameplate throughput capacity of 16,000 barrels and onwards to global export markets.
per day and the deal with Honeywell UOP covers An agreement for the conduit, known as the
the development of a new 20,000 bpd produc- Basra-Aqaba pipeline, was originally signed in
tion unit at the site for which foundation stones 2013 on a line that would transport 1mn bpd
were laid by Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar in of crude from Iraq’s oil-rich Basra Governorate
October 2020. to the Jordanian port of Aqaba via Haditha, but
At the time, NRC general director Qassem amid escalating costs and concerns about unrest
Abdel Rahman said that his company would in Anbar, Najaf to the south of Baghdad has been
invite international companies to carry out work chosen as the Iraqi waypoint.
to expand the refinery’s capacity by 35,000 bpd. The project is divided into two parts: the first
Meanwhile, in mid-2017, investors were phase includes installing a 56-inch (1,422-mm),
invited to develop the project, alongside sev- 680-km pipeline with a capacity of 2.25mn bpd
eral other refineries, on a build-operate-trans- from the Rumaila oilfield to Najaf, built in three
fer (BOT) or build-own-operate (BOO) basis phases. The second package covers the installa-
according to the framework laid out in ‘invest- tion of a 42-inch (1,066-mm), 973-km pipeline
ment law 67’ from 2007 – when the post-2003 from Najaf to the Jordanian border and on to
regime in Baghdad first launched a refinery Aqaba with a capacity of 1mn bpd. The latter will
development programme. include a spur carrying 150,000 bpd to Jordan’s
Baghdad has been keen to redevelop the sole refinery at Zarqa which is currently under-
facility which was at the heart of the Islamic State going an expansion project to raise capacity from
incursion from August 2014 until it was liberated 100,000 bpd to 120,000 bpd.™

Left: Oil Minister Ihsan
Abdul Jabbar lays
foundation stones at
Haditha refinery.

Below: NRC refining
capacity data provided
by IGM Energy.

Operator Refinery Current Nameplate Capacity (bpd) Nameplate Capacity Addition (bpd) Total (bpd)
North Refineries Co. Baiji - Salah al-Din 140,000 140,000 280,000
North Refineries Co. Kirkuk 56,000 56,000
North Refineries Co. Nineveh 20,000 20,000
North Refineries Co. Haditha 16,000 16,000
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 598,000
Midland Refineries Co. Daura 140,000 140,000
Midland Refineries Co. Wasit 100,000 100,000
Midland Refineries Co. Karbala 140,000 140,000
30,000
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70,000
Midland Refineries Co. Samawa (New)
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 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 790,000
Total 718,000 1,120,000 1,978,000