Eastern Refining Limited Chittagong Refinery — Bangladesh

Eastern Refining Limited Chittagong Refinery is a refinery in Bangladesh. Its listed capacity is 34,000 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 Eastern Refinery Ltd. It emits about 162,594 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 1.6% of the CO₂e from the 11 facilities in Bangladesh that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 44% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143740.

In context: how this facility compares

At 34,000 BBL per day, Eastern Refining Limited Chittagong Refinery is around the median refinery in Bangladesh (34,000 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 162,594 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.

Operator

Operated by Eastern Refinery Ltd.

Local climate

Eastern Refining Limited Chittagong Refinery sits in a tropical monsoon climate zone (Köppen Am), at 22.3°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 a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1241 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.95× 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

Nearby industrial sites

• Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited · Chemical Plant · 585,314 t CO₂
• BSRM Ltd Mirsarai plant · Steel Plant · 4,449,154 t CO₂
• Abul Khair Steel Sitakunda plant · Steel Plant · 254,428 t CO₂
• KSRM Sitakunda steel plant · Steel Plant · 42,971 t CO₂
• GPH Steel Sitakunda plant · Steel Plant · 333,972 t CO₂
• BSRM Steels Mirsarai plant · Steel Plant · 2,190,353 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 22.26716, 91.80269. View on OpenStreetMap.

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