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.
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