KNPC Shuaiba Refinery

KNPC Shuaiba Refinery is a refinery in Kuwait. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Kuwait National Petroleum Co.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144008.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

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.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Kuwait

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

Operator

Operated by Kuwait National Petroleum Co. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

KNPC Shuaiba Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 29.0°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

• Equate Petrochemical Co. , Al-Shuaiba, · Petrochemical · 2,215,924 t CO₂
• Kuwait Cement Shuaiba Plant · Cement Plant · 979,660 t CO₂
• KNPC Mina Abdullah Refinery · Refinery · 4,733,535 t CO₂
• KNPC Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery · Refinery · 3,607,496 t CO₂
• United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq plant · Steel Plant · 267,696 t CO₂
• KIPIC Al-Zour Refinery · Refinery · 8,272,164 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 29.03461, 48.14025. View on OpenStreetMap.

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