Refinery in Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 26.70243, 50.09207.
RefinerySaudi ArabiaCO₂ reported
Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery is a refinery in Saudi Arabia with a reported capacity of 550,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Saudi Arabian Oil Co. By capacity it ranks #1 of 10 oil refineries tracked in Saudi Arabia. It emits about 5,770,054 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 1,345,001 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 24% above the median refinery.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144102.
На мощности 550,000 BBL per day Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery — это значительно выше медианная refinery в Saudi Arabia (400,000 BBL per day). Подсектор: oil-and-gas-refining. Как refinery, оно требует высокотемпературного технологического тепла (обычно 200–600°C) для основных промышленных операций — тепла, которое должно подаваться котлами, печами или прямым сжиганием, и потери через неизолированные сосуды и трубопроводы представляют потраченное впустую топливо. Съёмная модульная теплоизоляция может снизить эти потери на 80–96%, охладив поверхность оборудования до ≤45°C, с окупаемостью часто менее 2 лет. Нефтеперерабатывающие заводы нагревают, фракционируют и химически преобразуют сырую нефть в топливо и нефтехимическое сырьё путём энергоёмкой дистилляции и крекинга — чрезвычайно требовательны к генерации пара и рекуперации тепла.
Сравнение производительности и интенсивности CO₂ рассчитано на основе данных промышленных объектов Climate TRACE; роль сектора основана на инженерных справочниках.
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.
Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Saudi Arabian Oil Co. All facilities by this operator →
Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery sits in a hot desert climate zone (Köppen BWh), at 26.7°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #1 largest of 10 oil refineries in Saudi Arabia by reported capacity.
Coordinates 26.70243, 50.09207. View on OpenStreetMap.
A refinery like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: crude & vacuum distillation columns, fired heaters, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–550 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 76,000 MWh/yr (≈ 15,000 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery is a refinery in Saudi Arabia. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming.
Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery has a reported capacity of 550,000 BBL per day.
Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery emits about 5,770,054 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 1,345,001 cars. That ranks #1 among tracked facilities in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery is in Saudi Arabia, near coordinates 26.70243, 50.09207.
Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery is operated by Saudi Arabian Oil Co.
