Tabriz Refinery
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Summary Information

  • Ownership: National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company ( NIORDC )
  • Website: http://www.nioc.ir/, http://www.tbzrefinery.co.ir/
  • Location: Tabriz
  • Capacity: 5.75 million tons/annum & 115,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation, 115,000 bbl/day
  • Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU)
  • Naphtha Unifier Unit
  • Visbreaker Unit
  • Gas Oil Unifier Unit
  • Isomax Unit: 18000 barrels of heavy gas oil per day
  • Hydrogen Unit: 40120 m3 of hydrogen gas per hour (97%)
  • Amine Theater Unit
  • Asphalt Units, 1000 barrels per day of 25/28 tar + 5000-7000 barrels of 85/100 tar.
  • Sulfur Making Unit 82 tons of sulfur per day of 98.5%.
  • Sour Waters Refining Unit
  • Catalytic Reforming Unit (CRU) 86 m3 of produced gasoline per hour.

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The needed crude oil is supplied from the Ahvaz-Asmari oil fields by the Rey facilities via a 16 inches pipeline.

Products Produced

  • LPG
  • Gasoline
  • Light Naphtha
  • Kerosene
  • Gas Oil
  • Fuel Oil
  • Asphalt

Ongoing Projects

  • For full details see the Tabriz Refinery Project (Shahryar Refinery)
  • The refinery is being upgraded to produce more gasoline

Other Information

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History

  • 1977 - Refinery Commissioned by Snamprogetti with 80,000 bpd
  • 1998 - Became Tabriz Oil Refining Company

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