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This is a 100,000 b/d state-of-the-art refinery built in a free zone next to Ameriya near Alexandria, 7 km from the Sidi Kerir oil terminal of the Suez-Mediterranean crude oil pipeline and close to Dekheila port. It is near LPG storage tanks and a loading station for tankers. On stream in early 2001, years behind the original schedule and becoming fully operational since July 2001, it can produce: 2.18m t/y of very high quality gasoil and diesel; 1.12m t/y of two kinds of high octane unleaded gasoline; 676,000 t/y of top quality jet fuel and kerosine; about 350,000 t/y of petroleum coke; 193,360 t/y of LPG; and about 97,000 t/y of sulphur. The products are marketed locally and in the Mediterranean.
The plant has atmospheric and vacuum distillation units, a hydrocracker licenced by UOP, an isomerisation unit, a CCR, a coker, a desulphurisation unit and a sulphur recovery unit. Its sophistication is measured by a complexity...
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