Zawia Refinery

The Zawia Refinery is an oil refinery located in Az Zawiyah, Libya, which is about 40 km west of Tripoli.

The refinery was discovered in 1974 and it currently produces an estimated convert|120000|oilbbl|m3 of oil per day (bpd). It is a topping and reforming refinery having a distillation capacity of 6,000 tonnes per annum. The refinery is operated by the Zawia Oil Refining Company, a subsidiary of the National Oil Corporation. [ [http://pages.ghattour.com/index.asp?documentid=17 Mohamed Ghattours & Company 2005] ] NOC is expected to re-tender an engineering, procurement and construction contract for upgrading the Zawia refinery. ["Libya Energy Data, Statistics and Analysis: Oil, Gas, Electricity, Coal". Energy Information Administration (EIA) July 24, 2007]

Refinery Expansion and Rehabilitation 2006

This project is aimed at increasing the capacity of the refinery from convert|120000|oilbbl/d|m3/d|abbr=on by 24 percent, which will involve the installation of a new continuous catalytic reformer (CCR) unit, naphtha and gas-oil hydrotreaters and an isomerisation unit, as well as the installation of pneumatic control units and a supervisory control & data acquisition (SCADA) system. The project is being financed by the Libyan government. [Intsok [http://www.intsok.no/upload/docs/INTSOK-Onshore-Market-Report.pdf "Onshore Market Report 2006"] ]

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