Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul Ghani, confirmed: ‘The Al-Azmara project in the Basra Refinery is one of the important projects to increase the production of improved gasoline,’ while noting that the project will contribute to reducing the import of gasoline, and save approximately 350 million dollars. Annually to the state treasury.
Abdul Ghani said, during the opening of the Al-Azmara Unit project for the production of improved gasoline in the Basra Refinery: ‘Today we celebrate the opening and completion of the (Azmara Unit) project with a capacity of eleven thousand barrels per day. This project is considered one of the important projects in increasing the production of improved gasoline fuel with a capacity of one thousand three hundred barrels per day.’ One cubic meter per day, which is equivalent to one million three hundred thousand liters per day, and contributes to reducing the import of gasoline by a rate of one thousand three hundred cubic meters per day, an
d saves the state treasury approximately three hundred and fifty million dollars per year.’
He pointed out that “the project comes within the ministry’s plans to increase refining capacity, improve the specifications of petroleum products, and improve their quality, after the completion of the fourth refining unit project, with a capacity of seventy thousand barrels per day, which entered into operation and production a short time ago.”
He pointed out that “the most important thing that distinguishes these projects is that they came about through the national effort of the Southern Refineries Company and its supporting bodies, after foreign companies hesitated to implement them.”
The Minister of Oil continued: ‘The government and the Ministry have given the refining industry sector great attention, with the aim of increasing national production to reach self-sufficiency, and gradually shifting to exporting its surplus outside Iraq. The year and a half period of the government’s life has witnessed the reali
zation and completion of a number of projects in the sector.’ The refining industry, including the North Refinery with a capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand barrels per day, the Karbala Refinery with a capacity of one hundred and forty thousand barrels per day, and the Azmara unit in both the Central Refineries Company and the North Refineries Company, in addition to what was achieved in the Southern Refineries with the completion of the fourth unit with a capacity of seventy thousand barrels per day.
Abdul Ghani praised the efforts of Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, and said, addressing him: ‘Without your efforts, we would not have been able to continue success and achieve the national achievement… and this is a word of truth that must be said about you… We also congratulate and appreciate the efforts of workers in the oil sector in general and in the refining industry sector and the Southern Refineries Company.
Today, Saturday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani inaugurated the Al
-Azmara unit project for improved gasoline in the Basra Refinery, with a capacity of (11) thousand barrels per day.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency