CORAF Pointe Noire Refinery

CORAF Pointe Noire Refinery is a refinery in Congo with a reported capacity of 21,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Congolaise de Raffinage . It emits about 84,472 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 19,690 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 52% below the median refinery.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143855.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 21,000 BBL per day, CORAF Pointe Noire Refinery é em torno de a mediana de refinery em Congo (21,000 BBL per day). Subsetor: oil-and-gas-refining. Como refinery, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 200–600°C) para suas operações industriais centrais — calor que deve ser fornecido por caldeiras, fornos ou combustão direta, e as perdas através de vasos e tubulações não isolados representam combustível desperdiçado. O isolamento modular removível pode reduzir essas perdas em 80–96%, esfriando superfícies a ≤45°C, com payback geralmente inferior a 2 anos. As refinarias aquecem, fracionam e transformam quimicamente o petróleo bruto em combustíveis e matérias-primas petroquímicas através de destilação e craqueamento que consomem muita energia — extremamente exigentes em geração de vapor e recuperação de calor.

Comparação de capacidade e intensidade de CO₂ calculada a partir dos dados de instalações industriais Climate TRACE; função do setor baseada em referência de engenharia.

What 84,472 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Operator

Operated by Congolaise de Raffinage .

Local climate

CORAF Pointe Noire Refinery sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 4.7°S in the southern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Cabinda Oil Refinery · Refinery
• Louvakou Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 122,345 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates -4.73371, 11.84966. View on OpenStreetMap.

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