Cairo Oil Refining Company Tanta Refinery

Cairo Oil Refining Company Tanta Refinery is a refinery in Egypt with a reported capacity of 40,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. By capacity it ranks #8 of 9 oil refineries tracked in Egypt. It emits about 168,927 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 39,377 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 50% below the median refinery.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753556.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 40,000 BBL per day, Cairo Oil Refining Company Tanta Refinery está por debajo de la mediana de refinery en Egypt (90,000 BBL per day). Su CO₂ por unidad de capacidad es aproximadamente 40% por debajo de la mediana de refinery. 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 168,927 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 Egypt

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

Operator

Operated by Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Cairo Oil Refining Company Tanta Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 30.8°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 #8 largest of 9 oil refineries in Egypt by reported capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 30.7934, 30.96257. View on OpenStreetMap.

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