Oil orders to increase capacity of refinery Najaf to 50 thousand barrels per day

The Oil Ministry on Wednesday ordered an increase in production capacity for Najaf refinery to 50 thousand barrels per day, indicating that it has projects to build several refineries in the south, center and north of the country.
Oil Minister Jabbar Ali al-Allaibi said during his visit to Najaf in a statement that “the ministry has developed large plans to develop production in Iraqi refineries and increase and improve production units and meet the local need of oil derivatives and reduce imports and provide hard currency to the federal treasury of the country.”
He added that “the ministry has large projects for the establishment of several refineries in the south, central and north of the country and has offered to invest during this year, to produce more than one million barrels of oil derivatives to reach self-sufficiency of oil products and the export of surplus, which will increase the financial revenues of the state.”
“The minister of oil has ordered the addition of new production units with a capacity of 20,000 barrels to the current capacity of Najaf refinery, which is 30 thousand barrels, thus increasing the capacity of the refinery to 50 thousand barrels,” spokesman Assem Jihad said.


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