4 projects to push up production in Baghdad oil refinery

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahrestani on Monday inaugurated four giant projects in Baghdad’s al-Doura oil refinery at a cost of over $67 million U.S. dollars. “The projects have been completed in a record period of 18 months in order to meet the increasing local demands for oil derivatives,” an official spokesperson for the ministry, Aasem Jihad, told IraqiNews.com news agency. The projects will increase the refinery’s gas production from 2.5 million liter per day to 3 million, Jihad explained. A new refinery unit with a capacity of 70,000 barrel per day (bpd) will be installed within the current year, he added. SS (P) 1