Project Profile

Value: US$2 billion
Location: East Azerbaijan province, near town of Tabriz, Iran
Refining capacity: 158,000 bbl/day
Start-up Year: October 2012
Area: 200 hectare

Tabriz Shahriar refinery is an oil refinery owned and operated by Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), located in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, near town of Tabriz, in a 200 hectare area. The refining capacity is 158,000 bbl/day (acc. to EURO-V standard) and it is intended to produce over 7,000,000 tons of gasoline (aircraft and normal), kerosene and gasoil. The feedstock, raw crude oil, is transferred to the refinery via three different pipelines, with total flow rate of 54,000,000 bbl/year, one from North 25% the second from North Dezful - Maroon (25%) and the third from Kashagan of Kazakhstan (50%).

The selection of this combination of feedstocks has been done among many alternatives between North Dezful, Maroon and Kashagan crude oils based on results of software PETROSIM, sample crude oil cuts and information from licensors. The refinery is intended to add to the capacity of seven similar refineries now in line to reply the increasing demand for gasoline and other petroleum based products to reduce the need for import in near future.

The project basic design was performed by Nargan and KBC with utilisation of Axens, Topsoe, Technip-KTI and RIPI. The refinery’s total investment reached the US$2 billion. The goal from implementation of this project is to produce the following products out of 54,000,000 tonnes of raw petroleum feedstock:

-  1,825,000 tonnes of vehicle gasoline
-  900,000 tonnes of aircraft gasoline
-  1,000,000 tonnes of kerosene
-  3,500,000 tonnes of gasoil

Operators:

Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC): Operator with 100% interest

Contractors:

Nargan: Project basic design

KBC: Project basic design

Axens: EPC contract

Topsoe: EPC contract

Technip-KTI: EPC contract

RIPI: EPC contract