Axens wins contract to support refinery upgrading project in Iraq
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The upgrade project is intended to increase the Basrah refinery’s gasoline and diesel fuel production capacity and reduce the gap in supply and demand for petroleum products.
The upgrade project involves installation of new refining units adjacent to the existing refinery facility.
The project is aimed at increasing the total processing capacity at the site from 210,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 280,000bpd.
Axens will deliver technologies required for the new units including diesel hydrotreatment unit; a vacuum gas oil (VGO) hydrotreating unit; a VGO fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) unit; and an oligomerization unit at the refinery.
Axens’ technologies for Basrah Refinery Upgrading Project
By Gerald Ondrey |
April 6, 2021
Part of Iraq’s Ministry of Oil, the state-owned South Refineries Company (SRC) executed the upgrading of its refinery located in Basrah, Iraq by implementing a new refining plant adjacent to the existing refinery facility. The Basrah Upgrading Project is now reaching the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase carried out by JGC Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) is pleased to continue being involved in this important Iraqi project, which will increase the gasoline and diesel production along with other oil products, reducing the national refined products imports. The Basrah Upgrading Project will also improve oil refinery efficiency of the complete facility.
Axens technologies for Basrah Refinery Upgrading Project
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Part of Iraqs Ministry of Oil, the state-owned South Refineries Company (SRC) executed the upgrading of its refinery located in Basrah, Iraq by implementing a new refining plant adjacent to the existing refinery facility. The Basrah Upgrading Project is now reaching the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase carried out by JGC Corporation (JGC).
Axens is pleased to continue being involved in this important Iraqi project, which will increase the gasoline and diesel production along with other oil products, reducing the national refined products imports. The Basrah Upgrading Project will also improve oil refinery efficiency of the complete facility.
On 24 February 2021, the SFO
secured a fourth conviction related to the long-running Unaoil case. Paul Bond, a former executive at Single Buoy Moorings Inc., was found guilty on two counts of conspiracy to give corrupt payments. He was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment on Monday. The SFO commented that it will relentlessly pursue such cases.
This is the SFO s second bribery success of 2021.
The case: corruption in 2007 Iraq
Paul Bond was the Middle East sales manager at Dutch oil and gas services company, Single Buoy Moorings Inc. (SBM). The case was a retrial after the jury initially failed to reach a verdict on charges against Mr Bond in July 2020.