South Refineries Company, an oil refining company under the Ministry of Oil of Iraq, has awarded JGC a JPY 400bn (US$3.75bn) engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) lump sum contract to upgrade the 140,000 bbl/d Basrah refinery in southern Iraq. The project would consist in installing a 55,000 bbl/d vacuum distillation unit, a 34,500 bbl/d fluid catalytic cracking unit and a 40,000 bbl/d diesel desulfurization unit. The upgrade programme is expected to be completed in 2025.
Iraq currently plans to retire part of the existing refining capacity and build new refineries. It aims at increasing the country's domestic refining capacity to more than 1.4 mb/d through several projects, including 150,000 bbl/d Karbala, 150,000 bbl/d Maysan and 150,000 bbl/d Kirkuk. In 2018, it also outlined plans to invite bidders for the development of three other refineries: two 150,000 bbl/d facilities in Nasiriya (southern Iraq) and in the western Anbar province, along with a 100,000 bbl/d refinery in the city of Qayyarah in the Mosul region.
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