SONARA Limbe Refinery

SONARA Limbe Refinery is a refinery in Cameroon with a reported capacity of 42,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by National Refining Co Ltd.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143765.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 42,000 BBL per day, SONARA Limbe Refinery está alrededor de la mediana de refinery en Cameroon (42,000 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.

Operator

Operated by National Refining Co Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

SONARA Limbe Refinery sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 4.0°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

• GNQ-Malabo_methanol · Chemical Plant · 322,863 t CO₂
• Mira Douala Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 266,911 t CO₂
• Edéa aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 110,639 t CO₂
• Nigerian Newsprint Manufacturing Company Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 13,363 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 4.01347, 9.12732. View on OpenStreetMap.

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