Executive operations to build the Anahita Petro-Refinery in Kermanshah Province will start within the next two months.
With a processing capacity of 150,000 barrels per day of crude oil, the facility will cost about $4 billion to complete, IRNA reported.
Anahita Petro-Refinery is a major project in the western province. The first phase of the plant is estimated to be completed in four years.
The construction of the plant was approved in 2006, but due to several problems, including financial constraints, the project made no progress in 17 years.
The plant will produce LPG, reformate, gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, diesel, bitumen and sulfur.
The most up-to-date technologies will be used in the facility to guarantee a safe and healthy environment at the refinery and in surrounding areas. All its main oil products will correspond with the Euro-5 standard.
Petro-refineries integrate refining activities and petrochemicals to produce both fuels and raw materials for petrochemical companies.
Such plants have boosted the profitability and development of petro-refineries in developed countries.
Kermanshah Refinery
There is already a refinery operating in Kermanshah Province. It is the second oldest refinery in the country, which converts 20,000 barrels of oil into products such as LPG, gasoline, kerosene, diesel and mazut.
A part of the feed for Kermanshah Oil Refinery is supplied from oil wells west of Kermanshah, which can supply a part of the Anahita Petro-Refinery’s feedstock as well.
Kermanshah Oil Refinery is completing development plans in collaboration with the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry and using the institute’s indigenized knowhow.
The refinery and RIPI have signed a contract, based on which the capacity of the atmospheric distillation units [processing units] is to increase from 20,000 barrels per day to 40,000 bpd. The production of Euro 5 diesel in also on the agenda. The development project is expected to be completed in two years.
Atmospheric distillation is the first fundamental step in the refining process. Its primary purpose is to separate crude oil into its components for further processing.
European emission standards are vehicle emission standards for exhaust emissions of new vehicles sold in the European Union and EEA member states. The standards are defined in a series of European Union directives that lay out stringent standards.
Emissions standards are stricter under Euro 5, with lower limits for carbon monoxide, unburnt hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen. Euro 5 also introduces a new standard measuring hydrocarbons, excluding methane.
RIPI has gained the technical knowhow for producing catalysts used in the refining process and will help experts and engineers at Kermanshah Refinery to carry out the development program.
The institute has become a major technology provider for Iran’s petroleum industry. Its strategy is focused on creating value added via production and commercialization of technology, with the approach of carrying out research for the development of new technologies and indigenization of new technologies.
The institute operates in the sectors of upstream and downstream petroleum industry, as well as energy and environment.
The upstream petroleum research center carries out fundamental and applied researches, conducts comprehensive studies and offers scientific, laboratory and scientific advisory services to meet the technological needs of the industry and solve related problems.
This is while the downstream petroleum research center plays a key role in the production and exportation of science and technology in oil, gas and petrochemical industries.
By carrying out research and development projects, the Energy and Environment Division acquires technical knowhow in oil industry and solves problems related to the fields of energy, industrial production, environment and biotechnology.
