Assiut Refinery
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- The refinery is also known as Asyut Refinery
Summary Information
- Ownership: ASORC
- Website: http://www.asorc.com/
- Location: Assiut, Egypt
- Capacity: 4.5 million tons/annum & 90,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- The refinery is a small and very simple one. It is being upgraded to enable it to produce high octane gasoline
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vapor recovery unit
- LPG and Naphtha caustic wash units.
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery processes domestic crude
Products Produced
- gasoline, kerosine, gasoil, fuel oil and LPG.
Ongoing Projects
- A project to add a hydrocracker is under consideration
- Project Description: Producing high quality Oil products (naphtha, butagas, Benz, terrbiane, and solar) to meet the increasing domestic needs and to export the surplus production.
- Project location: Asyut Governorate
- Total cost: 750 million $
- Implementation Period: 3:4years
- Current Status: under-going Feasibility
- Responsible Entity: Asyut Refining Oil Company / General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC)
Other Information
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History
- 1987 - Refinery is commissioned with 50,000 bpd capacity
- 2001 - Capacity increased
- 2015 - Axens awarded contract to provide gasoline technologies
Relevant Links
- Enppi Refinery Project References
- Investment Opportunities in Egypt
- EGYPT - The Oil Refining Sector
- Axens to provide technologies for the production of high octane gasoline in Upper Egypt
- Technip, EGPC And Asorc Agreement For The Assiut Refinery
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