Midor Refinery Completes Expansion Project for Enhanced Production Quality
Key Ideas
- Technip Energies successfully concludes Midor refinery expansion project, boosting processing capacity to 160,000 b/sd and upgrading to Euro 5-quality specifications.
- The expansion project included the addition of new units like a crude distillation unit and a hydrogen production plant based on steam reforming technology.
- The project, initially planned at $2.2 billion, was completed at a final investment of $2.7 billion, aiming to increase production of various petroleum products to meet domestic demand.
- Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources initiated the project to enhance efficiency, production quality, and reduce dependency on petroleum product imports.
The Middle East Oil Refinery Co. (Midor) in Egypt has successfully completed a long-planned project to expand its crude oil processing capacity and improve production quality at its El Amreya Free Zone refinery near Alexandria. The project, managed by Technip Energies, increased the refinery's capacity to 160,000 b/sd and upgraded production to cleaner Euro 5-quality specifications. The completion of the project, which aimed to help meet domestic petroleum product demand and reduce imports, involved a mix of debottlenecking existing units and introducing new units such as a crude distillation unit and a hydrogen production plant using steam reforming technology. The $2.7 billion investment in the project exceeded the initial $2.2 billion estimate, with the refinery now capable of producing various petroleum products to meet market demands and improve the country's energy infrastructure.