Sonatrach Skikda Refinery — Algeria

Sonatrach Skikda Refinery is a refinery in Algeria. Its listed capacity is 332,260 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 Sonatrach SpA. By capacity it ranks #1 among 6 oil refineries in Algeria. It emits about 3,319,868 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 16% of the CO₂e from the 29 facilities in Algeria that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 16% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143716.

In context: how this facility compares

At 332,260 BBL per day, Sonatrach Skikda Refinery is well above the median refinery in Algeria (75,513 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 3,319,868 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 Algeria

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

Operator

Operated by Sonatrach SpA. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Sonatrach Skikda Refinery sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 36.9°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 marine corrosion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1331 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.02× 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 6 oil refineries in Algeria by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Sonatrach Skikda Condensate Refinery · Refinery · 553,039 t CO₂
• Sonatrach Skikda, Skikda · Petrochemical · 149,667 t CO₂
• Bekkouche Lakhdar Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 268,328 t CO₂
• Didouche Mourad Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 239,687 t CO₂
• Sider El Hadjar Annaba steel plant · Steel Plant · 951,644 t CO₂
• Algerian Qatari Steel Jijel plant · Steel Plant · 908,258 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 36.87311, 6.97438. View on OpenStreetMap.

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