NOC Ras Lanuf Refinery

NOC Ras Lanuf Refinery is a refinery in Libya with a reported capacity of 220,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by National Oil Corp. By capacity it ranks #1 of 5 oil refineries tracked in Libya.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144009.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 220,000 BBL per day, NOC Ras Lanuf Refinery é bem acima de a mediana de refinery em Libya (20,000 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.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Libya

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

Operator

Operated by National Oil Corp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

NOC Ras Lanuf Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 30.5°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #1 largest of 5 oil refineries in Libya by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• National Oil Company Ras Lanuf, Ras Lanuf · Petrochemical · 379,925 t CO₂
• NOC El-Brega Refinery · Refinery · 53,535 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 30.47701, 18.57474. View on OpenStreetMap.

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