NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL REFINING AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY (NOIRDC)

Although National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company ( NIORDC ) is formed nearly in the past decade and began its activities within a new framework, the company is actually inherited 90 years of Iran’s Oil Industries experiences in the fields of refining, transferring and distributing of oil products, as well as, engineering and construction of installations of oil industries.

Installations and capabilities of NIORDC:

• Nine crude oil refineries in Tehran , Tabriz , Isfahan , Abadan , Kermanshah , Shiraz , Bandar Abbas , Arak and Lavan Island . 
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  Fourteen thousand kilometers of crude oil and oil product transfer pipelines. 
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  150 pumping stations. 
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  Oil industry telecommunication network. 
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  Operational zones for pipelines and telecommunication. 
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  35 operational zones for NIOPDC. 
• 194 operational areas for NIOPDC. 
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  Storage tank installations with 8 milliard litre capacity.
  
  

Abu Dhabi Refinery

Following the discovery of oil in Abu Dhabi in 1958, and the first export shipments of Crude in 1962, plans were drawn up for a grass root Refinery with a capacity of 15,000 barrels per stream day (BPSD) to meet a growing local need for petroleum products. Construction work on the project began in 1973 and the Refinery, costing an initial $45 million, was inaugurated in April 1976.
 
So rapid was the growth in demand for oil products, however, that work began almost immediately on installing a new Refinery to process a further 60,000 BPSD and this was commissioned in 1983.

Requirements continued to grow in the fast-developing Emirate, and ADNOC decided to expand capacity yet again, with environmental considerations in mind, to include additional units for Gas Oil Desulphurization and Sulphur recovery. The expanded Refinery started up in December 1992 with a rated capacity of 85,000 BPSD. 

 
A Salt and Chlorine Plant, commissioned at Umm Al Nar in 1981, was merged in 1990 with the Refinery to form the Abu Dhabi Refinery and Chlorine Division.

Subsequently it was permanently shutdown on 30th November, 2001. Two power plants, owned and operated by Umm Al Nar Power Company, and a Lube oil blending/filling plant, owned and operated by ADNOC Distribution, are located adjacent to the Refinery.

Al Shaheen Refinery

Qatar Petroleum is to build a further grass roots refinery at Mesaieed Industrial City to process crude oil from the Al Shaheen field situated about 180km north of Doha and operated by Maersk Oil Qatar AS.

The field, first developed in 1994 (discovered in 1992), produces over 260,000bpd but could be producing over 400,000bpd over the next five years if demand and processing capacity allow (over $2.5bn has already been invested in the field).

AL SHAHEEN REFINERY

Construction is expected to start by the end of 2008 and the call for bid tenders for the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract was made in early January 2008 and expressions of interest were due in by mid-January.
"Al Shahhen is a grass roots refinery at Mesaieed Industrial City."

The whole project cost including the refinery and pipeline has been estimated at $5bn. Qatar Petroleum will finalise the prequalification and invite bids for the lump sum EPC construction contract by May 2008 and will finalise the contract in November 2008 with construction beginning shortly after.

Interest has been shown by a number of companies including: Daelim Industrial Company, GS Engineering & Construction, Hyundai Engineering & Construction Company and SK Engineering & Construction, Technip of France, Foster Wheeler and Washington Group International.

Laffan Refinery Company Limited Qatar

LAFFAN REFINERY

The Laffan Refinery Company Limited's plant currently under construction is designed to be one of the largest condensate refineries in the world when it starts production in 2009, with a processing capacity of 146,000 barrels per stream day (BPSD).

The Laffan Refinery will help to capture synergies and opportunities from the development of the North Field, Qatargas, RasGas and Ras Laffan City ventures.

The project involves construction of process units including utility systems, distillation units, naphtha and kerosene hydroheaters, a hydrogen unit and a saturated gas plant producing naphtha, kerosene, gasoil and LPG for the export market.

All major contracts have now been let and the detailed engineering is in its final stages at the contractor’s office in Korea.

The Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor for this project is a consortium of GS Engineering & Construction Corporation and Daewoo Engineering & Construction Company who were awarded the contract in May 2005.

The plant foundation stone was laid in April 2006 by HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and construction work is now well underway.

Qatar Petroleum Refinery

QP REFINERY

Qatar Petroleum Refinery started as a small topping plant in 1958, which has grown over the years into a giant refinery organization, successfully making the State of Qatar self-sufficient and export oriented in refined oil and petroleum products by providing added value to part of the country’s natural wealth, improving refining economics and providing citizens with the necessary expertise in the areas of management, operation, engineering, maintenance and marketing. 

The main activity of the Refinery is to process the crude oil and condensate into various finished petroleum products, which are intended to meet the domestic demand as well as for export. The main finished products are liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), naphtha, premium gasoline, super gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and fuel oil. 

National Oil Distribution Company (NODCO) - Established in 1968 – owned 100% by Qatar Petroleum. ** Merged with Qatar Petroleum on 30 December 2000