NIORDC Lavan Refinery — Iran

NIORDC Lavan Refinery is a refinery in Iran. Its listed capacity is 60,000 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 National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Co. By capacity it ranks #7 among 9 oil refineries in Iran. It emits about 389,298 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.32% of the CO₂e from the 126 facilities in Iran that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 25% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143948.

In context: how this facility compares

At 60,000 BBL per day, NIORDC Lavan Refinery is below the median refinery in Iran (250,000 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 389,298 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 Iran

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

Operator

Operated by National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Co. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

NIORDC Lavan Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 26.8°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 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

The #7 largest of 9 oil refineries in Iran by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Koshkoo Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 232,428 t CO₂
• Lamerd City aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 580,039 t CO₂
• Arya Sasol Polymer Co. (9th Olefin complex), Assaluyeh,Bushehr · Petrochemical · 1,368,659 t CO₂
• Jam Petrochemical Co. (10th Olefin omplex), Assaluyeh,Bushehr · Petrochemical · 1,853,494 t CO₂
• Kavian Petrochemical Company (11th Olefin complex), Assaluyeh,Bushehr · Petrochemical · 2,606,969 t CO₂
• Morvarid Petrochemical Company (5th Olefin complex), Assaluyeh,Bushehr · Petrochemical · 651,742 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 26.79961, 53.3511. View on OpenStreetMap.

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