Refinery in Algeria. Approximate location 36.86314, 6.97247.
RefineryAlgeriaCO₂ reported
Sonatrach Skikda Condensate Refinery is a refinery in Algeria with a reported capacity of 100,684 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Sonatrach SpA. By capacity it ranks #2 of 6 oil refineries tracked in Algeria. It emits about 553,039 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 128,914 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 35% below the median refinery.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753399.
При потужності 100,684 BBL per day Sonatrach Skikda Condensate Refinery — це значно вище медіана refinery у Algeria (75,513 BBL per day). Його викидання CO₂ на одиницю потужності приблизно на 45% нижче медіани refinery. Підсектор: oil-and-gas-refining. Як refinery, воно вимагає високотемпературного технологічного тепла (зазвичай 200–600°C) для основних промислових операцій — тепла, яке повинне подаватися котлами, печами або прямим спаленням, і втрати через неізольовані судини та трубопроводи представляють витрачене напразно паливо. Знімна модульна теплоізоляція може зменшити ці втрати на 80–96%, охолодивши поверхню обладнання до ≤45°C, з окупністю часто менше 2 років. Нафтопереробні заводи нагрівають, фракціонують і хімічно трансформують сиру нафту у паливо та нафтохімічну сировину шляхом енергомісткої дистиляції та крекінгу — надзвичайно вимогливі до генерування пари та рекуперації тепла.
Порівняння продуктивності та інтенсивності CO₂ розраховано на основі даних промислових об'єктів Climate TRACE; роль сектору заснована на інженерних довідниках.
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 Sonatrach SpA. All facilities by this operator →
Sonatrach Skikda Condensate 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).
The #2 largest of 6 oil refineries in Algeria by reported capacity.
Coordinates 36.86314, 6.97247. 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 37,000 MWh/yr (≈ 7,500 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.
Sonatrach Skikda Condensate Refinery is a refinery in Algeria. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming.
Sonatrach Skikda Condensate Refinery has a reported capacity of 100,684 BBL per day.
Sonatrach Skikda Condensate Refinery emits about 553,039 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 128,914 cars. That ranks #14 among tracked facilities in Algeria.
Sonatrach Skikda Condensate Refinery is in Algeria, near coordinates 36.86314, 6.97247.
Sonatrach Skikda Condensate Refinery is operated by Sonatrach SpA.
