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The company is now waiting for the modules to be delivered to Nigeria.
“When installed, the upgraded refining complex will bring the total refining capacity to 11,000 bpd,” it said. “It will then have the requisite units to produce diesel [at the rate of] 512,775 litres per day; kerosene, 317,205 litres per day; marine diesel, 281,907 litres per day; and heavy fuel oil, 234,525 litres per day; and particularly Premium Motor Spirit (or petrol), 168,540 litres per day.”
Eventually, NPDR’s modular refinery will be able to turn out enough motor fuel to cover about 4.2% of Nigeria’s demand for diesel and around 0.4% for petrol.
The project could also help the West African state bring more investors on board.
“This laudable project is expected to cat- alyse further growth of the Nigerian refining industry by attracting more investments as more players gain confidence,” the department commented.
NPDR is looking to expand the capacity of the Ogbele refinery to 11,000 bpd (Photo: NGDelta.com)
PETROCHEMICALS
Iran inaugurates second phase of Takht-e-Jamshid Petrochemical Complex
IRAN THE second phase of Iran’s Takht-e-Jamshid Petrochemical Complex (TJPC) was officially inaugurated on January 14 in Mahshahr Special Petrochemical Economic Zone in southwest- ern Khuzestan Province, official energy news
agency Shana reported.
The phase delivers the capacity to produce
55,000 tonnes/yr of polybutadiene rubber (PBR).
The US is said by industry observers to have had less success in driving Iranian petrochem- icals off world markets with sanctions than it hashadwithcrudeoilasthecommercialflows and production flows further downstream of the multiple petrochemical products that Iran produces are difficult to track individually. With its vast oil and gas resources, Iran has access to cheap petrochemical feedstock production.
Head of the National Petrochemical
Company (NPC) Behzad Mohammadi and Vice President for Scientific Affairs Sorena Satari attended the inauguration.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mohammadi underlined the significance of TJPC, calling it one of the most significant projects in the sec- ond “leap forwards” of the country’s petrochem- ical industry.
The Tehran Times quoted him as saying: “This project is one of the first petrochemical projects in the country which has been estab- lished fully based on domestic knowledge and technologyandbyIranianexperts.”
The second phase of TJPC is also designed to produce 20,000 tonnes of latex, 5,000 tonnes of STP and 18,000 tons of Hips-grade polybutadi- ene rubber, officials said.
TJPC products are particularly marketed as raw materials for the tyre and rubber industries.
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