KIPIC Al-Zour Refinery — Kuwait

KIPIC Al-Zour Refinery is a refinery in Kuwait. Its listed capacity is 615,000 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 Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co. By capacity it ranks #1 among 3 oil refineries in Kuwait. It emits about 8,272,164 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 41% of the CO₂e from the 6 facilities in Kuwait that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 56% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144213.

In context: how this facility compares

At 615,000 BBL per day, KIPIC Al-Zour Refinery is well above the median refinery in Kuwait (454,000 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 8,272,164 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 Kuwait

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

Operator

Operated by Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co.

Local climate

KIPIC Al-Zour Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 28.7°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 1240 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

The #1 largest of 3 oil refineries in Kuwait by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

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

Location

Coordinates 28.71693, 48.33457. View on OpenStreetMap.

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