Khartoum Refinery Company Ltd. (KRC) Introduction

　　(KRC) is a joint venture company between Ministry of Energy & Mining of Sudan (MEM) and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) with share of 50% for each partner.

　　The Agreement for the establishment of the joint venture was signed on 1st March 1997, execution started on 26th May 1998 and the Refinery started production on 16th May 2000.

　　The objective of establishing KRC is to process Sudanese indigenous crude oil to cover the needs of Sudan petroleum products.

　　The Board of Director of KRC consists of 8 directors, and each party is represented by 4 directors.

　　KRC location is unique as it lies 70km north of Khartoum, 13km from the eastern bank of The River Nile and close to Nile Blend Crude pipeline, the old product pipeline, the railway linking Port Sudan and Khartoum and El Tahadi highway linking Atbara and Khartoum.

　　The Refinery was originally designed to process 50,000 bbl of crude oil per day. However, due to the increasing demand of products especially diesel , both shareholders decided to increase the processing capacity in two phases-Phase I was put into operation on 14th Sept. 2004 adding 12,000 bbl/d to the original capacity while Phase II was put into operation on 30th June 2006 making the overall processing capacity of KRC 100,000 bbl/d.

　　The Refinery occupied an area of 0.86 km2 and the main production units are Atmospheric Crude Distillation Unit (CDU), Delayed Coking unit (DCU), Residue Fluidic Catalytic Cracking Unit (RFCC), Reforming Unit (SCR), Diesel Hydro-treating Unit (DHT), Jet-A1 unit, Coker Gasoline and Diesel Hydro-treating Unit (GDHT) and Continuous Catalyst Regeneration Reforming Unit (CCR). KRC is self dependant on utilities, besides the processing units, it has Power Station, Water Purification Station (on the bank of The River Nile), Air Separation & Air Compression Unit, Cooling Water Treatment System, Boiler Feed Water Treatment System, Waste Water Treatment System as well as Oil Movement System and Central laboratory.

　　KRC produces the following products:
　　LPG --- 420,000 t/y
　　Gasoline---1,460,000 t/y
　　Jet fuel--- 330,000 t/y
　　Diesel---2,000,000 t/y
　　Heavy coker diesel ---140,000 t/y
　　Petroleum coke--- 190,000 t/y