Alexandria Petroleum Company El Mex Refinery — Egypt

Alexandria Petroleum Company El Mex Refinery is a refinery in Egypt. Its listed capacity is 117,000 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. It is operated by Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. By capacity it ranks #4 among 9 oil refineries in Egypt. It emits about 825,179 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 1.4% of the CO₂e from the 56 facilities in Egypt that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 18% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1825355.

In context: how this facility compares

At 117,000 BBL per day, Alexandria Petroleum Company El Mex Refinery is well above the median refinery in Egypt (90,000 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 825,179 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 Egypt

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

Operator

Operated by Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Alexandria Petroleum Company El Mex Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 31.1°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 1293 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.99× 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 #4 largest of 9 oil refineries in Egypt by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Dekhela Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 518,726 t CO₂
• Al-Ezz Dekheila Steel Alexandria plant · Steel Plant · 1,687,985 t CO₂
• Ameriya Petroleum Refining Company Ameriya Refinery · Refinery · 564,225 t CO₂
• Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives, Alexandria · Petrochemical · 525,888 t CO₂
• MIDOR Alexandria Refinery · Refinery · 1,341,404 t CO₂
• Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals, Alexandria · Petrochemical · 342,971 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 31.14278, 29.84433. View on OpenStreetMap.

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