Abdulghafoor M.

Abduljabbar
North Refineries Companys Director
General
Iraqi Ministry of Oil

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Actual situation of North

Refineries Company(NRC) and
our plan to meet world class
refining standards

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Contents
Introduction.
North Refineries Companys Process Units and

Licensors.
North Refineries Companys Organization

Structure.
North Refineries Companys new projects.
Future major refineries in Iraq.
Our aims.
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North Refineries Company (NRC)

North Refineries Company was established in 1982 and it is
the largest refining company among the Iraqi Ministry of Oil
companies with design capacity of402000 BPSD. NRC
employed over 8,873 employees.
The company produces over 35 different type of product such
as unleaded premium gasoline, illuminating kerosene, ATK,
diesel, lube oil product, spindle oil, transformer oil, Asphalt,
sulfur, LPG, RT etc.

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North Refineries Company consist of

the following refineries and facilities;
1- 310,000 BPSD Baiji Refining Capacity.
A- Salahuddin (1) Refinery with 70000 BPSD Refining Capacity.
B-North Refinery with 150000 BPSD Refining Capacity With
20000 BPSD small Two Units.
C- Salahuddin (2) Refinery with 70000 BPSD Refining Capacity.
2- New Isomerization Unit / 20,000 BPSD, in operation since July,
2011.
3- Lube Plant (two trains): 125000 Ton of different lube stocks
per train.
4- Packaging and Loading Arms facilities.
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5. Exterior Refineries:
A. Kirkuk Refinery with 30,000 BPSD Refining Capacity.
B. Siynia Refinery with 30,000 BPSD Refining Capacity.
Two units in operation and one unit under construction.
C. Kisik Refinery with 20,000 BPSD Refining Capacity.
One unit in operation and second under construction.
D. Qaiyarah Refinery with 34,000 BPSD Refining Capacity.
Needs to extend Crude Pipe line from the Strategic Line about
60 Km.
E. Hadithah Refinery with 16,000 BPSD Refining Capacity.
F. Aljazirah Refinery with 20,000 BPSD P28 Refining Capacity.
Planned to be re-engineering and reinstalling inside NRC.
6. Future Projects:
i. New Kirkuk Refinery with capacity of 150,000 BPSD.
ii. New FCC unit with capacity of 55,000 BPSD.

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1- Salahuddin Refinery 1 Process Units and

Summery
No.

Unit Name

Design
Capacity

Licenso
r

01

Atmospheric Distillation

70,000 BPSD

SNAM

02

Light Distillate HDS

29,000 BPSD

SNAM

03

Light Gas Oil

12,000 BPSD

SNAM

04

Reformer

8,000 BPSD

SNAM

05

LPG

540 Ton/Day

SNAM

06

Sulpher

51 Ton/Day

SNAM

1982 was the year of operation.

EPC has been done by Technoexport.
The refinery operate 90% of its design capacity.
2000 M3/Day of black oil is being injected back to the crude
oil.
Because of the long operation life, sanctions, and wars
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most of the
units need rehabilitation.

2- North Refinery Process Units

Unit
No.

Abbre
v.

Design
Capacity

Licenso
r

01

ADU

Atmospheric Distillation

150,000 BPSD

SNAM

02

VFU

Vacuum Flashing

65,000 BPSD

SNAM

03

NHT

Naphtha Hydrotreating

41,000 BPSD

UOP

04

KHT

Kerosene Hydrotreating

28,000 BPSD

UOP

05

GHT

L.G.O. Hydrotreating

31,000 BPSD

UOP

06

CRU

Catalytic Reforming

22,000 BPSD

UOP

07

VHC

Vacuum Gas Oil

Hydrocracking

38,000 BPSD

UOP

08

HPU

Hydrogen Production

71,860 Nm3/h

KTI

09

GSU

Gas Sweetening

32,600 Nm3/h

SNAM

10

LPGR

LPG Recovery

650 Ton/Day

SNAM

11

SRU

Sulfur Recovery

281 Ton/Day

SNAM

12

SWS

Sour Water Stripping

114 M3/h

SNAM

14

CCR

Reformer Catalyst
Regeneration

454 Kg/h

UOP

C 3 2.9 Ton/h

CCEC

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LPGD

Service

LPG Dehydration

North Refinery Summery;

1983 was the year of operation.
EPC has been done by CHIYODA.
The refinery operate 85% of its design capacity.
25,000 M3/Month of Naphtha is being injected

back with the crude oil.

Because of the long operation life, sanctions,
vandalism, and wars most of the units need
rehabilitation.

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3- Salahuddin Refinery 2 Process Units and

Summery
No.

Unit Name

Design
Capacity

Licenso
r

01

Atmospheric Distillation

70,000 BPSD

SNAM

02

Light Distillate HDS

29,000 BPSD

SNAM

03

Light Gas Oil

12,000 BPSD

SNAM

04

Reformer

16,500 BPSD

SNAM

05

Isomerization

20,000 BPSD

SNAM

1984 was the year of operation.

EPC has been done by Technoexport and TPL.
The refinery operate 85% of its design capacity.
2000 M3/Day of black oil is being injected back to the crude
oil.
Because of the long operation life, sanctions, and wars
units need rehabilitation.
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4- Exterior Refineries Process Units and

Summery
No
.

Refinery

01

Design
Capacity

Licensor

Kirkuk
Atmospheric Distillation unit 1
1973 Year Atmospheric Distillation unit 2
of
Atmospheric Distillation unit 2
Operation

10,000 BPSD
10,000 BPSD
10,000 BPSD

Howbacker
Howbacker
Howbacker

02

Siynia
Atmospheric Distillation unit 1
1978 Year Atmospheric Distillation unit 2
of
Atmospheric Distillation unit 2
Operation

10,000 BPSD
10,000 BPSD
10,000 BPSD

Howbacker
Howbacker
Howbacker

03

Kisik
Atmospheric Distillation unit
1982 Year
of
Operation

20,000 BPSD

Howbacker

2,000 BPSD
4,000 BPSD
4,000 BPSD
4,000 BPSD
10,000 BPSD
10,000 BPSD

Lummus
Ingeco
Ingeco
Ingeco
Howbacker
Howbacker
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04

Unit Name

Qaiyarah A- Asphalt unit 1

1955Asphalt unit 2
1983 Year
Asphalt unit 3
of
Asphalt unit 4
Operation B- Atmospheric Distillation unit
1
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Exterior Refineries Process Units and Summery

No
.

Refinery

05

Hadithah Atmospheric Distillation unit 1

1951 Year Atmospheric Distillation unit 2
of
Operation

06

Aljazirah Atmospheric Distillation unit

1984 Year
of
Operation

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Unit Name

Design
Capacity

Licensor

6,000 BPSD
10,000 BPSD

FosterWeele
r
Howbacker

2,000 BPSD

Ingeco

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Iraqi Refineries Location

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North Refineries Companys Organization

Structure

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a number
of projects
which will FCC (Fluid
NRC
Northhas
Refinery
in respect
of implementing
Catalytic
Cracking)
unit 55,000 BPSD
capacity for
contribute
to the development
of theofNorth
conversion
fuel
oil to lightas
products
especially of fuel oil up to
Refineries
Company
follow:30% of the total production volume. Feasibility Study has
been done by JICA. FEED and Licensor Selection will be done
by JICA too.
Six new boilers- 400 Ton/Hr Capacity, under Construction,
Two of them will be to start up Jun 2012.
New power generation plant/ 85 MW, contracted and site
preparation. plan to be completed April 2013
Reconstruction of 54 Storage Tanks. 90% has been done &
will be complet befor July 2012
New LPG Unit/ 400 Ton/day. Contracted will be start up
Nov.2013.
Upgrading of Waste Water Treatment System.
New R.O. unit in Operation since 1/1/2010.

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 Upgrading Existing
(TKT)company.

Hydrogen

production

with

KTI

New Can production line. Contracted with a Germany

Company.
Sulphur-Pelletisation
installing.

unit.

Received

at

site

Upgrading North Refinerys Control System

with DCS system.

and

under

by Honeywell

De-bottlenecking and Improving the performance of North

Refinery, by Choyoda & UOP. SAL. 1 Refinery & SAL. 2
Refinery, under discussion with Chemo project.

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Future Major Refineries in Iraq

1. New Kirkuk Refinery in Kirkuk City ( North of

Iraq) 150,000 BPSD Refining Capacity FEED will

be over by jun2012
2. Maissan Refinery in Maissan City ( South of

Iraq)150,000 BPSD Refining Capacity.

3. Karbala Refinery in Karbala City ( South of Iraq)

200,000 BPSD Refining Capacity. Has been

awarded to Italian company for investment.
4. Nasiriya Refinery in Nasiriya City ( South of Iraq)

300,000 BPSD Refining Capacity.

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New Kirkuk Refinery

Process Units Licensors for New Kirkuk Refinery Capacity of 150,000 BPSD
Achieved about 97 % FEED by Shaw Energy and Chemicals Limited/ UK
No
Licensor
Process Unit
1-

SGSI

Kerosene Hydrotreating Technology

2-

SGSI

Light Gas Oil Hydrodesulphurisation Technology

3-

SGSI

VGO Hydro-Cracking

4-

HALDOR TOPSOE

Hydrogen Production Unit

5-

POERNER

Blown Asphalt

6-

UOP

Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit FCC

7-

UOP

Naptha Hydrodesulphurisation

8-

UOP

NC4 Isomerisation Unit

9-

UOP

Continuous Catalytic Reformer CCR

10- UOP

C5/C6 Isomerisation Unit

11- MERICHEM

Saturated Gas Plant LPG Treatment

12- MERICHEM

Unsaturated Gas Plant LPG Treatment

13- DUPONT-STRATCO

C3/C4 Alkylation

14- LURGI

Sulfur Recovery and Tail Gas

15- Shaw Energy and Chemicals

Atmospheric Distillation

16- Shaw Energy and Chemicals

Vacuum Distillation

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NRCs Aims
Our primary goal is to:
Optimizing production Quantity
Improving products quality.
Improving efficiency.
a- Replacing North Refinerys Control System with DCS
system.
b- Upgrading Sal. 1, Sal. 2, and N.R. refinery.
c- Replacing old pumps and compressor with new ones.
d- Replacing old Furnace's tubs with new ones.

e- Replacing old North Refinerys boilers with new ones.

Enhancing safety and security.
Reducing downtime.
Be green with the environment.
Rehabilitation North Refinerys Waste Water Treatments to
improve water quality that is been discharged to the river.

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Thank you for your attention

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