The Ministry of Oil introduced, on Monday, the addition of a new refining unit to the Maysan refinery with a potential of 70,000 barrels in line with day.
The ministry stated in a assertion received with the aid of / dinaropinions.com /, that “the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil for Refining Affairs, Adnan Muhammad Hamoud, visited the Maysan refinery these days, Monday, and chaired a assembly, inside the presence of the Director of the foreign Refineries production Authority, the Director of the Refinery, the Deputy Director, branch officials, and a number of engineering personnel, to review the progress of labor and discuss mechanisms for enforcing development plans. The visit covered examining the production and technical units and assembly with workers.”
Hamoud stated – in line with the announcement – that “the ministry is proceeding with imposing its strategic plans in the government program, which ambitions to broaden the refining quarter, maximize countrywide manufacturing of oil derivatives, and secure neighborhood consumption and export the excess,” adding that “the world enjoys amazing attention and guide from top Minister Eng. Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani and Deputy top Minister for energy Affairs and Minister of Oil Hayan Abdul-Ghani Al-Sawad.”
He mentioned that “a brand new unit with global specifications (Euro 5) with a potential of 70 thousand barrels in step with day could be set up, contributing to raising the refinery’s manufacturing ability to 110 thousand barrels in step with day, including that “this will in large part comfy the want of Maysan Governorate and neighboring governorates for oil derivatives.”
Hamoud defined that “the expansion and development task includes the established order of complementary devices, which include a gasoline hydrogenation and development unit, an FCC unit, a gasoline oil unit, and a white oil unit, similarly to environmentally friendly carrier gadgets,” stressing “the importance of the refinery in securing part of the local marketplace’s want for petroleum derivatives and its aid for diverse industrial sectors.”
The Undersecretary referred to as at the refinery employees to “accentuate efforts to make certain the stableness of the production system and the easy glide of petroleum merchandise, noting that the refinery is one of the main refineries within the Southern Refineries enterprise, with a modern ability of 40,000 barrels consistent with day.”
