North Refineries operates the Baiji refinery, which is located in Arbil, Iraq. It is a non integrated refinery owned by North Refineries. The refinery, which started operations in 1982, has an NCI of 5.66.


Key processes of the refinery

Crude Distillation Unit (mbd): 300
Vacuum Distillation (mbd): 100
Reformer (mbd): 46
Hydrotreater (mbd): 182
Isomerization (mbd): 20


The capacity of the refinery is expected to remain the same as 300mbd by 2030.

About North Refineries


North Refineries Company (North Refineries) is involved in the refining activities. The company units include sulfur recovery unit, hydrocracking unit, reforming unit, hydrotreating unit, flashing unit, distillation unit, and catalyst regeneration units. The major projects and plants of the company are Salahudin-1 refinery, Salahudin-2 refinery, power feeding for secondary refineries, rehabilitation of industrial water treatment unit, construction of new liquid petroleum gas, installation of new asphalt unit and diesel power generation plant. North Refineries is headquartered in Karada, Baghdad, Iraq.

Methodology

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