Indorama Eleme Petrochemical, Port Harcourt

Indorama Eleme Petrochemical, Port Harcourt is a petrochemical in Nigeria with a reported capacity of 360,000 t of ethylene. It cracks hydrocarbon feedstocks into building-block chemicals such as ethylene and propylene. It is operated by PT Indorama Petrochemicals . It emits about 414,464 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 96,612 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 14% below the median petrochemical.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-732016.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 360,000 t of ethylene, Indorama Eleme Petrochemical, Port Harcourt está alrededor de la mediana de petrochemical en Nigeria (360,000 t of ethylene). Subsector: petrochemical-steam-cracking. Como petrochemical, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 300–800°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 plantas petroquímicas agrietan hidrocarburos a temperaturas muy altas para producir etileno, propileno y otros químicos básicos — uno de los procesos industriales más intensivos en 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 414,464 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.

Operator

Operated by PT Indorama Petrochemicals .

Local climate

Indorama Eleme Petrochemical, Port Harcourt sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 4.8°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Port Harcourt Fertilizer Complex · Chemical Plant · 3,150,986 t CO₂
• PHRC Port Harcourt Refinery · Refinery · 185,439 t CO₂
• NGA-Obio/Akpor_methanol · Chemical Plant · 219,041 t CO₂
• Onne (Port Harcourt) Fertilizer Complex · Chemical Plant · 1,643,014 t CO₂
• NGA-Port Harcourt_methanol · Chemical Plant · 182,360 t CO₂
• Aradel Modular Refinery · Refinery · 48,269 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 4.83924, 7.104. View on OpenStreetMap.

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