Akwaaba Link Investment Refinery — Ghana

Akwaaba Link Investment Refinery is a refinery in Ghana. Its listed capacity is 6,000 BBL per day. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery. By capacity it ranks #3 among 4 oil refineries in Ghana. It emits about 25,227 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 2.5% of the CO₂e from the 8 facilities in Ghana that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 51% below the national median for this sector.

Facility identity, coordinates and modelled CO2: Climate TRACE v6, id ct-40040659. Cited capacity and operating status are independently sourced below.

Capacity and operating-status verification

6,000 bpsd refinery; permit-to-operate project documented

Checked 2026-07-18. Capacity figures are design or current processing capacity as described by the linked source. Operating status can change; the source wording and date take precedence. Stark Energy project record

In context: how this facility compares

At 6,000 BBL per day, Akwaaba Link Investment Refinery is below the median refinery in Ghana (40,000 BBL per day). Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. As refinery, it requires high process heat (typically 200–600°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 25,227 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in 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 Ghana

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

Local climate

Akwaaba Link Investment Refinery sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 5.7°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1227 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.94× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

The #3 largest of 4 oil refineries in Ghana by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Platon Gas Oil Refnery · Refinery · 8,409 t CO₂
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• Sentuo Steel Tema plant · Steel Plant · 66,315 t CO₂
• Tema Aluminum Smelter & Refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 417,947 t CO₂
• Tema aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 89,551 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 5.65052, -0.09961. View on OpenStreetMap.

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