PM sponsors the signing ceremony of the contract for Diwaniyah Refinery Development and Expansion Project

Baghdad-INA  

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani sponsored, today, Wednesday, the signing ceremony of the contract for Diwaniyah Refinery Development and Expansion Project by adding a refining unit with a capacity of 70 thousand barrels per day.
 
The Prime Minister's media office said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): that "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani sponsored, today, the signing ceremony of the contract for Diwaniyah Refinery Development and Expansion Project, at a cost of (800) million dollars, and by adding an air refining unit with a capacity of 70 thousand barrels per day, so that the total production is 90 thousand barrels per day, with hydrogenation units, gasoline improvement, isomers and other service units."
 
 
The Prime Minister confirmed "securing financial allocations within the framework of contracting with the implementing company, as it will start work within days," explaining that "what the project represents as an addition to Diwaniyah Governorate, which lacks strategic projects, and within the government's interest in providing the best services to the governorate."
 
He pointed out "the importance of this project in securing oil derivatives, and it will help in completing the project to establish the Shanafiya power station, and securing the needs of industry and the local market, in addition to providing job opportunities."
 
According to a statement by the Prime Minister's Media Office, "Diwaniyah Refinery Development and Expansion Project includes adding a liquid gas processing unit with a capacity of 180 tons/day, naphtha hydrogenation units with a capacity of 18,000 b/d, gasoline improvement with a capacity of 10,000 b/d, naphtha isomerization with a capacity of 8,000 b/d, electric generators to operate the units with a capacity of 10 megawatts/hour, and the rest of the necessary units."
The project also includes a nitrogen production plant with a capacity of 1,400 m3/hour, a warehouse for loading finished products with a capacity of 90,000 b/d, in addition to pumping and storage stations that include 24 tanks for crude oil and products, a liquefied gas cylinder filling plant to discharge the produced liquefied gas, a water pumping station from the Euphrates River with a primary water treatment unit, R.O. desalination units, industrial water treatment, and caustic soda preparation, in addition to establishing all civil works and infrastructure.