Construction of Karbala oil refinery in South Karbala province, around 100km away from Iraq’s capital Baghdad, began in February 2014. The refinery, being constructed on a 6km plot of land, will produce liquefied gas, gasoline, fuel oil, gas oil, jet fuel and asphalt. The oil produced on the refinery will meet international requirements equivalent to European manufacturing, and can serve the rising home demand for oil in Iraq.
The State Firm for Oil Venture (SCOP) appointed Refinery of Karbala Company (RKC) to execute the mission under Construct, Own and Function (BOO) terms in July 2011.
The oil refinery is being developed as a part of a joint collaboration between ATCONZ and Make investments Worldwide, as well because the joint improvement agreements signed by the Italian and Iraqi governments. The ability can have a refinery capacity of 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day (bpd) when it opens in 2019. The refinery’s building is predicted to be accomplished in fifty four months with an estimated funding of $6.04bn.
Zubair oil discipline is located in southern Iraq, roughly 20km south-west of town of Basrah.
Infrastructure
The refinery might be geared up with greater than 20 processing models to provide LPG, motor gasoline, aviation turbine kerosene, kerosene, diesel, heavy diesel, gasoline oil, bitumen, and stable sulphur.
The infrastructure at the refinery will embrace an atmospheric distillation unit with a capability of 140,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd), a seventy two,000bpsd vacuum distillation, and a 41,500bpsd naphtha hydrodesulphurisation (HDS) unit. The other course of units at the refinery will embrace a 25,500 bpsd reforming unit, a C5/C6 isomerisation unit of 12,500bspd capability, a 20,000bspd kerosene HDS unit, and a 28,000bspd fuel oil hydro-treating unit.
The refinery will even be equipped with a vacuum gas oil hydrotreater unit of 36,000bpsd capability, a 31,500bpsd fluid catalytic cracking unit, an eleven,500bpsd polynaphtha unit, a sulphur restoration unit, and a blown asphalt unit.
The Karbala refinery will be equipped with high end applied sciences to achieve full conversion of crude to last merchandise in step with new Iraqi legal guidelines in refining and the setting. It’s going to adapt a extremely versatile course of method to regulate the product ratio variations to satisfy the local market demands with higher quality gasoline and diesel products.
The production from the refinery will even be used to feed the Khayrat energy station that will provide electricity to the Karbala province.
Contractors concerned
Technip was awarded a 鈧?0m ($25.38m) contract to offer entrance-finish engineering design (FEED) for the Karbala refinery in February 2009. The FEED study was completed in 2010.
The Italian engineering firm Saipem, a subsidiary of Eni, is the technical service supplier for the engineering, process plant EPC, in addition to training for the operations of the Karbala oil refinery, beneath a contract awarded in 2011.
The joint venture led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction (HEC) with GS Engineering & Construction and SK Engineering & Construction was awarded the engineering, procurement & building contract to construct the refinery in April 2013. GS Development is accountable for chemical tools including vacuum distillation items, while SK Construction might be in command of utilities. The Hyundai subsidiaries can be liable for providing petroleum processing facilities.
Technip was further contracted to supply venture administration consultancy (PMC) providers for the EPC part of the refinery in June 2013. The scope of labor consists of issue of enquiries for the EPC contract, bids clarification, analysis and contracts finalisation with the EPC contractors in the primary phase, and total administration of the EPC contract execution within the second section. The primary section of the challenge will probably be completed at Technip’s working centre located in Milton Keynes, UK.
