Refinery in Ghana. Approximate location 5.6674, 0.00538.
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TOR Tema Refinery is a refinery in Ghana. Its listed capacity is 45,000 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 Tema Oil Refinery Ltd. By capacity it ranks #1 among 4 oil refineries in Ghana.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753582.
Source data, measured cross-checks and calculated values are kept separate. No confidence percentage is invented.
PowerAtlas operating assets, ordered by great-circle distance from published coordinates.
At 45,000 BBL per day, TOR Tema Refinery is around the median refinery in Ghana (40,000 BBL per day). Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. As refinery, it requires high process heat (typically 200–600°C) for its core industrial operations — heat that must be supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion, and losses through uninsulated vessels and piping represent wasted fuel. Removable modular insulation can cut those losses by 80–96%, surface-cooling equipment to ≤45°C, with payback often under 2 years. 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.
Listed capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Tema Oil Refinery Ltd.
TOR Tema Refinery sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 5.7°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The local climate sets how fast unprotected steel, protective coatings and the insulation on hot process equipment degrade at this site. It 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 1227 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.94× the loss at a 20 °C reference; removable insulation recovers about 1166 W/m² of that. 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).
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
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.
The #1 largest of 4 oil refineries in Ghana by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).
Coordinates 5.6674, 0.00538. View on OpenStreetMap.
For a refinery, the main modular-insulation targets are crude & vacuum distillation columns, fired heaters, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges. Typical hot-surface ranges used for screening: 150–550 °C.
A first-pass insulation screen suggests about 54,000 MWh/year of recoverable heat-loss reduction and about 11,000 t CO₂e/year of avoided emissions. Indicative range based on typical exposed hot equipment for this sector.
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Screening calculation from facility class, capacity and open emissions/energy context. Engineering survey required before procurement.
Start with a thermal survey of valves, flanges, doors and bends. Removable modular insulation keeps maintenance access open while lowering exposed-surface temperature and wasted heat.
For energy-efficiency projects around process heat, likely external funding channels include:
Sources: country climate-finance facilities and public development-bank programmes.
TOR Tema Refinery is a refinery in Ghana. 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.
The open dataset lists 45,000 BBL per day of capacity for TOR Tema Refinery.
TOR Tema Refinery is in Ghana at approximately 5.6674, 0.00538.
The operator recorded in the open dataset is Tema Oil Refinery Ltd.
