Expansion Projects:
In line with the Ministry of Petroleum policy and its vision to expand the capacity of the existing refineries, NIORDC during the last two years had conducted a comprehensive study and embarked upon implementing them accordingly.
Among the nine existing refineries, the contract for six of these expansion program had been awarded. The details of each project is as below:
Abadan Refinery
Name of the Project: Cat Cracker
Construction of New Units: Cat Cracker, Alkylation, Isomerization, Sulphur, Sulphuric Acid
Recovery, Amine, LPG treatment
Gasoline Capacity after Expansion : 70000 bpd
EPC Contract Signing Date: May 13th 2006
Contractor: Abb Lummus, PIDEC, ECC
Start up Date: 2006
Completion date: 2009
Physical Progress: 11%
(as of Feb. 2007)
Arak Refinery
Name of the Project: Expansion and Product Upgrading
Construction of New Units: Atmospheric Distillation , Naphta treatment, CCR, GHDS,
Kerosene treatment, Izomerzation, Gas Oil treatment, Naphta
Unifer,Heavy cut treatment, Sulphur recovery , LPG and
Propylene recovery
Gasoline Capacity after Expansion : 100000 bpd
EPC Contract Signing Date: July 30th 2006
Contractor: UOP, Axens, Technip KTI, RIPI, SEI, Sazeh, ODCC
Start up Date: 2006
Completion date: 2009
Physical Progress : 8%
(as of Feb. 2007)
Bandar Abbas Refinery
Name of the Project: Increasing Gasoline Production
Construction of New Units: Heavy & Light Naphta, GHDS, Sulphur recovery, Sour Water,
Amine, CCR, Izomerization
Gasoline Capacity after Expansion : 80902 bpd
EPC Contract Signing Date: November 19th 2006
Contractor: Abb Lummus, PIDEC, ECC
Start up Date: 2006
Completion date: 2009
Physical Progress : 2.5%
(as of Feb. 2007)
Esfahan Refinery
Name of the Project: Increasing Gasoline Production
Construction of New Units: Naphta hydrotreating, octanizing( CCR ), Izomerization
Gasoline Capacity after Expansion : 75400 bpd
EPC Contract Signing Date: October 17th 2006
Contractor: Namvaran, Hyundai Engineering Co., AKPG, Dor Riz.
Start up Date: 2006
Completion date: 2009
Physical Progress : 5%
(as of Feb. 2007)
Tabriz Refinery
Name of the Project: Increasing Gasoline Production
Construction of New Units: Heavy Naphta treatment, Catalytic conversion
Gasoline Capacity after Expansion : 23270 bpd
EPC Contract Signing Date: December 12th 2006
Contractor: SEI, EIED, Tanavob
Start up Date: 2006
Completion date: 2009
Tehran Refinery
Name of the Project: Increasing Gasoline Production
Construction of New Units: Light Naphta , Izomerization
Gasoline Capacity after Expansion : 23270 bpd
EPC Contract Signing Date: November 8th 2006
Contractor: Axens, Chegalesh, Petrolinvest, Radira
Start up Date: 2006
Completion date: 2009
Other Projects:
These projects are either at the tender stage or tender document preparations.
- Lavan Expansion
- Shiraz Expansion
- Kermanshah Expansion
- Persian Gulf Star Oil Refinery Co.
- Hormoz Oil Refinery Co.
- Khuzestan Oil Refinery Co.
