Pointe Noire Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: CORAF (Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo)
• Website: http://www.snpc-group.com/
• Location: Pointe Noire
• Capacity: 1.0 million tons/annum & 21,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation, 21,000
• Vacuum Distillation unit 8,000
• Catalytic reformer 2,000
• Distillation HCU 2,000
• Distillate hydrotreater 3,500
• Soaker Visbreaker, 10,000 bpd

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Domestic Crude

Products Produced

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Ongoing Projects

• Saudi Arabia's Rawabi Holding Company plans to quadruple capacity at the CORAF refinery
• The expansion will take at least two years and should increase capacity at the plant to 100,000

Other Information

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History

• 1974 - Refinery was commissioned
• 1976 - Refinery begines operations
• 1991 - S.T.P. Engineering builds visbreaker
• 2000 - SNPC assumed ownership of CORAF
• 2008 - Saudi Arabia's Rawabi Holding Company wins a 390 billion CFA franc ($868 million) contract to quadruple capacity at the CORAF refinery

Relevant Links

1. Studi Tecnologie Progetti Refining References
2. Rawabi Holding wins Congo refinery deal
3. STP References

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