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DMEA REFINING DMEA

Basra refinery upgrade on

track for 2025 completion

MIDDLE EAST IRAQ’S Ministry of Planning has said that a $19mn for engineering services.
project to upgrade and expand the 210,000 bar- It added: “the project to construct Iraq’s first-
rel per day (bpd) Basra oil refinery located at ever FCC complex will unleash the potential
Shuaiba is proceeding on schedule. of Iraq’s refining sector to produce the larger
Speaking to Zawya Projects, Abdul-Zahra volume of the high-value outputs, promote the
Al-Hindawi, a spokesperson for the ministry, transfer of refining technologies from Japan and
said that the project, which began in February help save valuable foreign currencies [needed] to
last year, would be completed during 2025 hav- import huge amount of fuels”.
ing secured Japanese export credit in Q3 2021. The latest expansion follows successful com-
The Basra Refinery Upgrading Project pletion in January 2020 of a project to expand the
(BRUP) will expand capacity at the facility, Shuaiba facility from 140,000 bpd by Czech firm
operated by the state-owned South Refineries Technoexport under an EPC contract awarded
Co. (SRC), to 280,000 bpd, below the earlier in 2015, which also covered increasing the out-
Ministry of Oil (MoO) estimate of 300,000 bpd. put of higher-quality fuels.
In August, Japan and Iraq formalised a previ- Technoexport completed the installation of
ous agreement to provide a low-interest $300mn a crude distillation unit at the facility in 2013
loan for the project. and of a catalytic reformer in 2007, and has also
Funding is provided by the Japan Interna- worked on several projects at the Daura refinery
tional Cooperation Agency (JICA) and follows near Baghdad and for NRC – the operator of the
a mid-2019 agreement with Iraq’s Ministry of beleaguered Baiji refinery.
Finance for a $1bn loan to upgrade the refinery, BRUP forms part of wider efforts by SRC to
which was built in the 1970s. more than quadruple its refining capacity from
In October 2020, Japan’s JGC was awarded 270,000 bpd at present to 1.19mn bpd, plans
a $3.75bn engineering, procurement and con- which include the development of greenfield
struction (EPC) to to build a new fluid catalytic units in Nassiriyah, Missan and Dhi Qar.
cracking (FCC) complex on land adjacent to the Iraq has a current refining slate of around
existing refinery at Shuaiba. 728,000 bpd, and Baghdad intends to raise this
At that point, JICA said it had concluded to more than 2.5mn bpd, though several of the
three loans for the project – a first tranche of projects discussed have been in planning for a
$379mn, a second tranche of $994mn and decade with very little progress.™
Operator Refinery Current Capacity (bpd) Capacity Addition (bpd) Total (bpd) Iraq’s current and
North Refineries Co. Salah al-Din (Baiji) 140,000 150,000 290,000 planned refining
North Refineries Co. Siniya 20,000 10,000 30,000 projects.
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 Source: IGM Energy
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
South Refineries Co. Fao (New) 300,000 300,000
South Refineries Co. Dhi Qar (New) 100,000 100,000
Total SRC 270,000 920,000 1,190,000
Total 728,000 1,867,000 2,595,000

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