Oil complex

Production capacity 110 thousand tons / year Basic lubricating oils and special lubricating oils

Production start date:1974

Update stages

First Stage

Removing the bottlenecks in 1976 with the aim of increasing the capacity of the complex to produce 80,000 tons per year instead of 60,000 tons per year

• The study included a phenol extraction unit
• Solvent removal unit

Second Stage

Development of the lubricating oil complex
The study includes:

• Development of a phenol extraction unit using a solvent-NMP (N-METHYL PIRROLIDON)%, which has no harmful effect on the environment in addition to increasing the unit’s energy13
• Wax removal unit using solvents so that the unit operates in a system of successive stages – (3 stages instead of two stages) and thus the number of actual operating days becomes 330 days instead of 250 days, and the rest of the operating days are used to remove oil from wax to produce paraffin wax, and the Amria Petroleum Refining Company is The only company in the Middle East that produces medicinal oil with international standards

This complex included the following units:

First: Unit (13) Propane extraction unit: 125,000 tons / year

Feeding this unit from the residual product of the vacuum distillation unit to produce the remaining oil needed to obtain very heavy oils and produce asphalt. The remaining oil is treated with propane, which has the property of dissolving asphalt materials, then the propane is recovered and asphalt production

250,000 tons / year N.M.P Second: Unit (14): Extraction unit

The purpose of this unit is to improve the viscosity coefficient by getting rid of aromatic substances using the NMP solvent, where the NMP is mixed with the oil and then the oil is separated from the NMP mixture. With heavy aromatic materials, the (NMP) is fully recovered and used again and the production of Raffinates (oil + paraffin wax)

Third: Unit (16) Wax Separation Unit: 125000 tons/year

(de-waxing) In this unit, the wax is separated from the oil using a mixture of toluene and methyl ethyl ketone.
(de-oiling) and also used to separate oil from wax

Fourth: Unit (17) Wax treatment unit: 7000 tons / tooth

In it, the wax is processed by the child to completely purify it from the oil residue, and then the plates are poured into the casting machine

Fifthly: Unit (300) hydrotreating oil unit 80,000 tons/year

(de-waxing) in which the resulting oil is treated with
Using hydrogen to get rid of substances that affect the color of the oil and substances that cause corrosion, such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides, using a catalyst under pressure and temperature in the form of hydrogen sulfide gas, ammonia and water vapor
(lube oil) The unit produces the final oils

Sixth: Unit (600) Special oils production unit: 20,000 tons / year

In which certain types of oils are treated with hydrogen using a catalyst under conditions of high pressure and temperature to produce the following special oils:

• tree spray oil
• white mineral oil
• turbines oil

Seventh: Unit (700) unit of medicinal oil production: 7000 tons/year

In which the white mineral oil is treated with hydrogen in the presence of a platinum catalyst and under conditions of pressure and temperature, at which the unsaturated ring compounds are converted into saturated compounds, and the local market is covered by medical oil for pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies and all rice mills