Bitex Refinery

Bitex Refinery is a refinery in Albania with a reported capacity of 4,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. By capacity it ranks #2 of 3 oil refineries tracked in Albania. It emits about 15,593 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 3,635 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 54% below the median refinery.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-38895666.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 4,000 BBL per day, Bitex Refinery está por debajo de la mediana de refinery en Albania (10,000 BBL per day). Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. Como refinery, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 200–600°C) para sus operaciones industriales centrales — calor que debe ser suministrado por calderas, hornos o combustión directa, y las pérdidas a través de recipientes y tuberías sin aislar representan combustible desperdiciado. El aislamiento modular desmontable puede reducir esas pérdidas en un 80–96%, enfriando superficies a ≤45°C, con amortización a menudo inferior a 2 años. Las refinerías calientan, fraccionan y transforman químicamente el petróleo crudo en combustibles y materias primas petroquímicas mediante destilación y craqueo que consumen mucha energía — extremadamente exigentes en generación de vapor y recuperación de calor.

Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.

What 15,593 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Albania

Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Local climate

Bitex Refinery sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 41.1°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #2 largest of 3 oil refineries in Albania by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Kurum International Elbasan steel plant · Steel Plant · 23,718 t CO₂
• Altex Shpk · Textiles · 1,541 t CO₂
• Industria Ballkanike E Veshjeve – Bilisht Site · Textiles · 1,541 t CO₂
• Extreme-Korce Shpk · Textiles · 1,541 t CO₂
• Emera Sh.P.K. · Textiles · 1,541 t CO₂
• Fushi Kruji Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 475,835 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 41.08629, 20.00742. View on OpenStreetMap.

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