Iraq_Widyan - North Arabian Gulf_Acid/sour gas

Iraq_Widyan - North Arabian Gulf_Acid/sour gas is an oil & gas field in Iraq. It extracts crude oil and natural gas at the wellhead. It emits about 6,629,425 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 1,545,321 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-53058862.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Subsector: oil-and-gas-production. Los campos y plantas de extracción de petróleo y gas operan compresores, equipos de separación y tratadores calefaccionados; la pérdida de calor de vapor y tuberías calientes reduce la eficiencia de extracción.

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 6,629,425 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.

Local climate

Iraq_Widyan - North Arabian Gulf_Acid/sour gas sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 30.6°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

• INOC Basrah Refinery · Refinery · 1,061,446 t CO₂
• Basrah Petrochemical Complex, Al-Zubair,Basra Governorate · Petrochemical · 177,793 t CO₂
• Iraq_Widyan - North Arabian Gulf_Conventional onshore · Oil & Gas Field · 99,995,863 t CO₂
• Al Anmaa Basra steel plant · Steel Plant · 147,726 t CO₂
• Iran_Widyan - North Arabian Gulf_Conventional onshore · Oil & Gas Field · 14,364,164 t CO₂
• Arvand Jahanara Steel Khouzestan plant · Steel Plant · 532,260 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 30.60557, 47.44947. View on OpenStreetMap.

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